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Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear
(www.theregister.com)
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I did hear that it was caused by a solar flare, but I haven't actually checked that. If it wasn't a solar flare, I wonder if it could've been a case of cyber warfare?
Unlikely. The most likely cause is that it was caused by a misconfiguration, like someone typo'd a line in a file somewhere, which then propagated outwards when everything downstream got the faulty update.
If it was a solar flare,or cyberwarfare, it would be more indiscriminate, rather than targeting a specific vendor's hardware or a single network.
Edit: Sure enough, it was a botched update.