Spectrum Meltdown Freezes North Texas: Thousands Offline in Dallas—What Happened, How It Compares, and How to Stay Online
What we know now Scale and geography. By mid‑afternoon Friday, outage trackers showed tens of thousands of reports tied to Spectrum—nearly 25,000 in Dallas alone—suggesting a broad service hit across the metro area. Local reporting cited Dallas, Plano and Frisco as the most-affected cities, while some tracker chatter pointed to additional states seeing issues. Dallas News+1 Timeline. User reports ramped up and peaked around 2:45 p.m. Eastern (1:45 p.m. Central) on September 26, 2025. Hindustan Times What Spectrum said. On X (formerly Twitter), the company told customers it was aware of “an interruption of services in parts of Central and North Texas” and was working to restore service quickly. Dallas