T-Mobile still down after major tech outage, led by Google Cloud, impacts U.S. users coast to coast
Big tech names fell like dominoes this afternoon as a major outage hit U.S. users from coast to coast. It seemed to start with Google Cloud which reported problems starting at 2:46 PM EDT. On its status page, Google said that issues with Google Chat, Google Meet, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Cloud Search, Google Tasks, and Google Voice were resolved for all users by 3:48 pm EDT.
At the same time, websites and apps such as Cloudflare, the Pokemon Trading Card Game, Amazon Web Services, Life360, Spotify, T-Mobile , UPS, and OpenAI were also having problems. A spokesman for global cloud company Cloudflare told CBS News earlier this afternoon, "A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly. The core Cloudflare services were not impacted."
Issues with Google Cloud led big tech names to go down this afternoon. | Image credit-Downdetector
A complete list of affected platforms includes:
Discord
Google Meet
Snapchat
Spotify
Google
Gmail
Google Cloud
Google Nest
DoorDash
Character AI
YouTube
Box
Etsy
Pokémon Trading Card Game
Pokémon Go
Cloudflare
Mailchimp
UPS
FuboTV
Amazon Web Services
Rocket League
Verizon
Vimeo
Shopify
HighLevel
Paramount+ (CBS News and Paramount+ are owned by Paramount Global)
Claude
D&D Beyond
T-Mobile
Clover
Phasmophobia
Ecobee
HighLevel
Dragon Ball
Procore
NPM
Dialpad
Dave
OpenAI
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft 365
DeviantArt
Fitbit
Marvel Contest of Champions
Cursor
Wix
Zoom
Google Gemini
Spectrum
Roblox
AT&T
reCAPTCHA Downdetector continues to list some of these affected firms as still suffering from possible problems including T-Mobile . At the peak, the carrier had 618 complaints submitted to the Downdetector site compared to a baseline of 49 typically received at that time of day. That number has dropped to 255 as of 6:23 pm EDT which is still above the baseline of 48. 52% of the complaints about T-Mobile dealt with mobile phone service while 32% had issues with their 5G Home Internet. 16% said they could not get a signal.
T-Mobile is still considered down at Downdetector as of 7 pm EDT. | Image credit-Downdetector T-Mobile outages were reported in Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, St. Cloud, Sylvania, Houston, San Diego, and Seattle.
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