Solar Flares May Have Caused Massive Cellular Outages

"After a nationwide outage left tens of thousands of frustrated AT&T and Verizon customers without wireless cellphone service, many were left wondering what caused the interruption.

Faulty equipment? Hackers? Solar flares?

That last one caught the attention of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after two powerful solar flares billions of times stronger than a hydrogen bomb erupted from the sun Many people are also speculating the cell outages could have been the result of some type of cyberattack." IndianapolisStar