T-Mobile down: Why SOS mode is showing up on your phone
THE SO WHAT
Carrier outages at this scale turn “redundant connectivity” from nice-to-have into basic business continuity. If your field ops, payments, or auth flows assume a single mobile network, you’re running a single point of failure in plain sight.
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