UPDATE – AT&T has confirmed that service has been fully restored to its wireless network after a widespread outage temporarily cut off connections for users across the United States for several hours. Impacted residents should now have the ability to connect to 911 for emergency needs.
LEONARDTOWN, Md. – St. Mary’s County Government’s Department of Emergency Services has received reports that AT&T customers and other cell service providers nationwide may be having difficulties connecting to 911.
Impacted service providers are actively working on this issue.
More information will be released as it becomes available.
********if your phone works, the non- emergency # for the Sheriffs office is the back- up to 911*************.
explanation for this? (from AT + T)
…Because of a SW update.. not Chiner as Terry and Heather predicted.