Verizon outage causes thousands to lose service nationwide Monday

https://www.ksnt.com/news/local-news/apparent-verizon-outage-causes-thousands-to-lose-service-nationwide/

25 Comments

  1. Not what the folks trying to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene needed today. Currently my spouse and I have phone plans with the same carrier, going to change this going forward.

    > … outages are being reported along the east and west coasts with larger outages appearing in Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

  2. My phones been dead all day. Their website has nothing about it, and their support page is currently broken, so I couldn’t even get help this morning. I had to see this post to even know this was going on.

  3. My phone works but our AT&t fiber is out. A. I’m east of Atlanta so not only are we dealing with hurricane fall out but also we had a chlorine plant catch fire yesterday morning so we also have a stay-in-place order here. Can’t catch a break…

  4. So crazy. Verizon is down for `some` users all over the country. My buddy in MA, my daughter in AL, and me in CA. Meanwhile my buddy 40mi away has full service.

  5. Carl0sTheDwarf999 on

    Would love to see telecommunications nationalized. These corporations take government subsidies, break infrastructure promises, raise out rates and then fail when they are needed the most. The CEO of this company makes over $25 million each year for screwing the public.

  6. Apparently, every time I go into my local Wal-mart, T-mobile seems to not exist. It’s like the service takes a vacation while in that store.

  7. Seems like if you have a 4g only phone you should be fine. But a solid chunk of 5g phones are down. My fold 3 and my wife’s pixel 8 are down, my work iPhone 11 is working. The Verizon CTO should be handing their resignation letter in by EOD.

  8. cassandra_schmidt on

    Mine is affected but my husband’s is not. We are in 2 different locations currently.

  9. MotheroftheworldII on

    I am in Salt Lake City, Utah and I have SOS only. At least with WiFi I can text. I have not tried calling anyone yet.

    EDIT: I just tried calling a friend and the call would not go through so I hope texting is working.

  10. BloodandBourbon on

    I don’t have service but my mom does and she’s on my plan and she lives in another town.

  11. Yeah, I noticed this when I was out birding this morning…

    I’m able to a get a minute (or several) by going to airplane mode and back out, if it helps anyone in a (shortlived) bind…

  12. How is it possible that the phones have been in S0S mode since 9 am this morning and not a peep from Verizon nor any talk of it on mainstream media? What the actual fuck is happening? It’s obvious some sort of hack that we won’t find out about for 2 years from now and they will tell us all oh BTW 2 years ago all your info and data was stolen but here’s five bucks for your troubles. We need satellite phone coverage like yesterday

  13. Mysterious_Fennel459 on

    There’s an outage? Me and my husband have been texting no problem all day and the spam calls are coming in just as heavy as ever.