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The three major providers, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, are all suffering major outages in Europe, affecting Americans using roaming services over there. An intermediate service provider, Syniverse, which apparently manages international roaming, has an outage and now all of them are screwed. It may also be disrupting cell service for locals, the article didn't mention it but some Slashdot commenters did.
This is why when we were in Europe in '15 we bought local SIMs. There was no way that I was going to put up with roaming rates while over there. But apparently with phone locking, it can be tricky to do this nowadays. Still, our phones are paid off and ours, I bought them at an Apple Store, so they shouldn't be locked in the first place.
I had to buy a small Android phone for Russet as her phone at the time didn't do GSM, so wouldn't work over there regardless.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/27/international_roaming_outage_us_telcos/
This is why when we were in Europe in '15 we bought local SIMs. There was no way that I was going to put up with roaming rates while over there. But apparently with phone locking, it can be tricky to do this nowadays. Still, our phones are paid off and ours, I bought them at an Apple Store, so they shouldn't be locked in the first place.
I had to buy a small Android phone for Russet as her phone at the time didn't do GSM, so wouldn't work over there regardless.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/27/international_roaming_outage_us_telcos/
