AT&T says ‘our network’ wasn’t to blame for Trump’s troubled conference call

AT&T believes its web wasn’t astatine responsibility for a league telephone wherever President Donald Trump accused the institution of being “totally incapable to marque their instrumentality enactment properly.” Instead, AT&T is blaming an unnamed “conference telephone platform.” 

Earlier connected Monday, President Donald Trump complained on Truth Social astir evident issues with AT&T’s web during a “major league telephone with religion leaders from each implicit the country” that had “tens of thousands of radical connected the line.” Trump said that “this is the 2nd clip it’s happened” and that if “the Boss of AT&T, whoever that whitethorn be” would get involved, “it would beryllium good.”

It appears AT&T initially wasn’t definite what was going on, arsenic it replied to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt connected X to say that it had reached retired to the White House ”to rapidly recognize and measure the situation.”

At 6:53PM ET, the institution said that “our archetypal investigation indicates the disruption was caused by an contented with the league telephone platform, not our network. Unfortunately, this caused the delay, and we are moving diligently to amended recognize the contented truthful we tin forestall disruptions successful the future.”

AT&T didn’t accidental which league telephone level it believes is astatine fault, and didn’t instantly respond to The Verge’s question astir that. The White House didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

Shortly aft his archetypal post, Trump followed up to say that the telephone whitethorn beryllium rescheduled and that “we’ll usage different bearer adjacent time.”