T-Mobile was doing some work on its network on Friday leading to problems for subscribers sending SMS texts and making phone calls.
If you’re a T-Mobile subscriber, Friday morning you might have realized that something was going on with the carrier’s network. According to DownDetector, the number of complaints it received about the nation’s second-largest wireless provider having an issue soared 100 fold with 42 submissions at 4:41 am ET soaring to a peak of 4,748 exactly two hours later.
A whopping 75% said that they could not get confirmation that an SMS text that they sent had been received although some of them did make it to the recipient. 19% of those reporting to DownDetector about the outage said that they could not send or receive phone calls, and 6% had issues with their 5G home internet.
