According to DownDetector (a sister site of Mashable), the blackout has affected major cities across the U.S., sparking a wave of complaints on social media from frustrated users, including customers of Mint Mobile, T-Mobile’s prepaid subsidiary.

Users of the self-proclaimed "un-carrier" reported widespread outages for both the main T-Mobile network and Mint Mobile, its subsidiary that focuses primarily on prepaid phones. According to DownDetector (a sister site of Mashable), both T-Mobile and Mint ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Customers using T-Mobile for service, or other mobile virtual network operators like Mint Mobile that rely on the larger company's towers, reported outages across the state on Tuesday.

This morning, many T-Mobile customers found that they couldn't connect to the network. The carrier appeared to have dealt with a network outage in certain parts of the U.S., with Downdetector seeing a spike in outage reports on Tuesday, Nov. 12. However, reports seem to be easing as service returns for affected users.

T-Mobile isn’t the first mobile provider to face issues on Tuesday, as Verizon users also experienced outages in the Northeast earlier in the day. “A network issue early this

T-Mobile customers were scrambling for answers after an outage affecting cell service and internet access across the U.S. on. Some customers reported being without service for two hours, evoking a recent outage affecting Verizon customers that lasted several hours.

The incident was a result of a facility in the Salt Lake area facing a brief mechanical issue that impacted connectivity for some customers in that market