Musk's Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service

NBC News

2 days ago

Elon Musk 's satellite internet service Starlink said it had a 'network outage' on Thursday. The company said it was working on a solution.
Downdetector, a site that logs issues.
Starlink is owned and operated by SpaceX, which is also run by Musk.
At 4:30 p.m. ET, Musk apologized for the outage on X and said, 'Service will be restored shortly.'
At 6:23 p.m. ET, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, said in an X post that service 'has now mostly recovered from the network outage, which lasted approximately 2.5 hours.'
service was fully restored.
Musk posted earlier Thursday that the company's direct-to- cell-phone service was 'growing fast' following the announcement that T-Mobile 's Starlink-powered satellite service was available to the public.
T-Mobile said the T-Satellite service was built to keep phones connected 'in places no carrier towers can reach.'
Starlink didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Starlink internet speeds and reliability decrease with popularity, a recent study found.
It wasn't immediately clear if the T-Satellite service was affected by or involved in the outage.
Musk's social media site X, which he purchased as Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, has been hit with a number of outages in the past months.
The site had disruptions in early July. During another outage in May, Musk said that 'major operational improvements need to be made.'