Mobile outage

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A massive AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon outage on Thursday disrupted communications for US customers traveling abroad. The devices impacted were temporarily unable to make calls, send messages and use data. "We're one of several providers impacted by a third-party vendor's issue that is intermittently affecting some international roaming service," a T-Mobile spokesperson told CNN. Meanwhile, Verizon told CNN about 30% of its customers' calls and data connections from overseas were not going through at the time. Analysts say the issue stems from an international third-party communications provider called Syniverse, which manages international roaming connections for various carriers. The company said it was working to restore full service but did not elaborate on the cause of the issue.