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iPhone SOS: Verizon Experiences Major Outage Across the U.S. [Update: Fixed]
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Metro Denver area. No signal for 3 hours or more and still dead. Was going to cancel the dual sim I have with T-Mobile but its proving its worth today.
Sucks though because you can't receive any 2FA texts or voicemails and was expecting some important business calls today.
Sucks though because you can't receive any 2FA texts or voicemails and was expecting some important business calls today.
Ironically it's probably still reliant on a lot of the same infrastructure. I don't know if it's even possible to get a plain, copper POTS all the way back telephone line anymore. Now they just connect to the same internet connection everything else uses.
To my understanding you'll never roam onto another carriers network unless you're connected to specific towers where your primary carrier is known to provide little to no service. Ultimately depends on the agreements they have setup along with your plan. If peoples phones just randomly roamed because they were in an elevator, parking garage or there was an outage it would overload the carriers that are available plus somebody has to foot the bill.
I'm secretly enjoying the outage because it's hard for coworkers to get ahold of me.
I doubt the current infrastructure could handle the load of millions of cell users trying to text/use data but hopefully some day. With iPhones and Pixel 9 supporting sat comms I'm sure they're getting slammed today.
5g is down but LTE working fine. From people ive seen its those who don't have 5g Auto set that are having this issue.
There are 5 of us in one location. Three iPhone SE’s are working fine; two iPhone 15’s are stuck in SOS mode.
Old SE? We're all up and running off LTE. I had no idea of the issue till someone with 5g only as a setting under voice & data mentioned it.
My 16 Pro Max is on 5G Auto and has not had service all day (shows "SOS"). So I don't think that has anything to do with it.
My VZW phones lost connection here in the Twin Cities around 10:15AM CST and have been down ever since. WiFi calling is also down.
Because my university requires dual factor identification for most services, I am locked out of everything. My wife and I are both on Verizon in West Hollywood (in fact, the account is hers), but her iPhone (older) works and mine (the latest) does not. This is not dependent on location or account; I am curious if it is dependent on model of phone. The original announcement also makes it sound as if this isn't confined to just iPhones, either.
I doubt this is the same as 5G in various forms have been out for Verizon for years now. But, the last Verizon outage that was this widespread (at least that I remember) happened when a single central controller computer they used for LTE went offline. In fairness that was hmm... somewhere between 2007 and 2010... So while this sucks it could be worse.
Also for those talking about thinking since this is so wide spread that it would be on the shorter side. During the LTE outage it was off at least all day. I also hope that it comes back on as quickly as possible though.
And, yep. My company is pushing more and more towards the authenticator applications but we also still have text as an option and it is the easy option for several parts of the system.
Also for those talking about thinking since this is so wide spread that it would be on the shorter side. During the LTE outage it was off at least all day. I also hope that it comes back on as quickly as possible though.
And, yep. My company is pushing more and more towards the authenticator applications but we also still have text as an option and it is the easy option for several parts of the system.
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