We live a few cities away from Nashville.
911 Emergency is down and so is ATT communications, internet and cell service for millions of people in multiple counties and areas well beyond Nashville, including ours. We have no 911. Several family members of mine their ATT cells won’t connect. And some have no internet.
The explosion was large, but it was within a one block radius in the downtown area, and it happened in the middle of the street, not inside the ATT building. So definitely not enough to affect communications for counties so far from the area of damage.
For example, when the tornados hit Nashville earlier this year, and just before covid, the damage from the tornados was so extensive that they literally took out several power stations and left people without power or cell service for weeks. But only Nashvillians, and the other specific cities hit nearby were affected by these widespread outages. We were not.
I think this is a cover for some large scale communications shut down.
Several family members of mine can’t contact each other and haven’t been able to all day. Plus, not having 911 for emergencies either. We’re just too far away it doesn’t make sense.