Widespread T-Mobile outage Feb. 20

[Geek-9pm]

Today, February 20, T-Mobile has acknowledged a macrophages in some areas.

T-Mobile (@TMobile)
4 hours ago - View on Twitter
We apologize to any customers experiencing calling issues or long wait times with Care. Our teams are working to resolve them asap.

Elsewhere:

http://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/map/
T-Mobile offers mobile phone and mobile internet service, including text messages (SMS) and voice mail, to individuals and businesses. T-Mobile in October 2012 reached an agreement to merge with MetroPCS. This acquisition is pending approval by regulators and shareholders.

Also:

http://www.tmonews.com/2016/02/t-mobile-volte-and-wi-fi-calling-outage-kicked-off-overnight-some-users-still-having-issues/
Several folks on Reddit and Twitter reported having issues when it came to making and receiving calls, and T-Mobile’s Twitter account apparently confirmed the issues to one user, saying that “We are experiencing 70% LTE and Wi-Fi calling failures affecting subscribers nationwide.” The support rep said that engineers were working to correct the problem...

What is notable is that the map shows this to be all over the USA.
(Map attached.)

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[Salmon Trout]

Handy for me to be (a) living in Europe (b) not using T-Mobile infrastructure!

[BC_Programmer]

Handy for me to be (a) living in Europe (b) not using T-Mobile infrastructure!

I'm sure somewhere will report it as a "worldwide" outage... 

[Geek-9pm]

When I made that post I was on the T-Mobile network and it was as slow as molasses  on a winter day. Still no explanation.   

[patio]

Snow...and ice.