A “No Service” message is seen on an iPhone in Atlanta during an AT&T outage on February 22. Brook Joyner/CNNWhile Thursday’s AT&T outage grabbed national headlines, outages do happen and usually for mundane reasons, several telecom experts told CNN. Common causes include construction-related digging that punctures fiber optic cables and software misconfigurations that can lead to interruptions, said TJ Kennedy, a public safety communications expert. “I can’t think of every incident in the last few years, but I can think of things related to routers, things related to backhaul, things…
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