By WECT Staff | October 4, 2020 at 11:04 AM EDT – Updated October 4 at 12:34 PM
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. (WECT) – Residents in the Wrightsville Beach were without the use of their landline phones Sunday morning.
According to a post made on New Hanover County’s official Twitter page, AT&T began experiencing outages for their central office in the Wrightsville Beach area.
AT&T expressed that any landline phone beginning with “910-256” or “910-509” would not be able to dial out or make 911 calls.
Residents were encouraged to use cell phones as they were not impacted by the outage.
As of 12:30 p.m., AT&T had restored all services for the impacted landlines.
⚠️AT&T is experiencing an outage & any landline phone beginning with “910-256” or “910-509” can’t dial out or call 911. Cell phones don’t appear impacted, so residents should use cell phones if a landline isn’t working. The estimated time of repair is unknown at this time. pic.twitter.com/hD5V8L7mGA
— New Hanover County (@NewHanoverCo) October 4, 2020
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