Large-scale cellular phone outage hits AT&T customers across the US

More than 70,000 affected as users of AT&T report disruptions including to emergency service callsA cellular phone outage hit cities across the US early on Thursday. Thousands of AT&T customers reported service disruptions that rendered them unable to send texts, access the internet or make calls, even to emergency services via 911.More than 50,000 incidents were reported at about 7am US eastern time, according to data from the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Outage reports spi