Customers of numerous U.S. cell service providers were reporting outages early Thursday morning, according to the website downdetector.com, which tracks such reports.
AT&T, T Mobile, Verizon, UScellular and Consumer Cellular were among them.
Some municipalities reported issues with 911 service.
The reports of outages appear to have started at around the same time, shortly after 3 a.m. EST, downdetector said, and appeared to be waning some three hours later.
There was no word on the source of the problems.
CBS News has reached out to all the major carriers for comment.
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