"Service has been
restored for wireless customers affected by an issue connecting
to 911," a representative for the company said in an email
statement. "We apologize to those affected."
Earlier on Wednesday evening, public safety agencies across the
country said in alerts that AT&T mobile phone customers
nationwide were unable to reach 911 emergency dispatchers.
"AT&T is experiencing a nationwide outage which is affecting 911
calls," authorities in Washington, D.C., said in an email alert.
The Seminole County Sheriff's Office in Florida, in a message
typical of alerts by other public safety agencies across the
country, posted its regular 10-digit phone number on Twitter and
asked local residents to dial that in an emergency.
AT&T had about 135 million wireless subscribers in the United
States as of Dec. 31, 2016, according to a company filing.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles and Subrat Patnaik
in Bengaluru,; Editing by Sandra Maler and Michael Perry)
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