Tens of thousands of outages were reported by major cellular carriers throughout the United States after a pair of powerful solar flares erupted from the sun on Feb. 21 and Feb. 22.

Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US (video)

Source: space
Source Link: https://www.space.com/sun-2-solar-flares-february-22-2024-cell-phone-outages