[outages] major (fiber? routing ? ) issues in south - tn, alabama, elsewhere?

No Verizon OR AT&T Cell service in parts of North Alabama (Cullman, Florence) Isolated reports coming in from all over North Alabama. At least one WISP reports an outage in TN - backbone is AT&T Anonymous report from a friend who works at TVA tells me they have problems with all their MPLS connections. Here is one news story linking to it: http://whnt.com/2015/08/04/social-media-users-report-widespread-cell-outages...