I am normally away from my device aswell, but I planned the day to record a good mobile live vlog and ended up at my destination without reception so had to record a quick one on limited memory space and upload later. I suspect it was a either a major hack occuring causing the outage that was kept quiet, or a country wide test to see the public reaction to such an event. They claim solar flares apparently, but cell towers withstood alot more than a little glare, I have a hard time buying it haha but who knooows