For several hours on Wednesday, many cellphones on the AT&T network in Anchorage couldn't make outgoing phone calls, including to 911. AT&T customers in Juneau and the Mat-Su also reported the outage, which appeared to have been resolved by 10:45 p.m., according to the Anchorage Police Department.

During the outage, Anchorage police advised anyone who needed to call 911 to use a landline or a cellphone on another network until the problem was fixed.