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iPhone SOS: Verizon Experiences Major Outage Across the U.S. [Update: Fixed]

Rokair said:
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.
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I feel bad for the team that has to work on this disaster. I also imagine they can't communicate because their own phones are out of commission lol.
 
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5+ hours and counting. But at least it gave me a good chance to try out satellite text messages. Though eventually that said that the satellite text message service was temporarily out of service. They may have disabled the message service to give priority to 911 calls via satellite
 
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djc6 said:
My wife's iPhone 15 Pro is Verizon Wireless, Wi-Fi calling and Wi-Fi texting are not working. Also tried changing from "5G Auto" to "LTE" (then power cycling) and still nothing.

She's unhappy as she is on call doctor and patients can't reach her. I can't setup call forwarding by dialing *72 to setup somewhere else, I also can't log into My Verizon to see if you can forward calls on the website - 2FA not working since its sending text I can't receive.
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Doctors should be on FirstNet, which is through AT&T. Not exactly the best play by a doctor.
 
Well. It could still be a plan thing. I tried switching my iPhone to LTE only and cycling the radio but nope same issues with no connection. iPhone 16 Pro Max here.
 
Dark_Omen said:
Doctors should be on FirstNet, which is through AT&T. Not exactly the best play by a doctor.
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How does that help. Sure this time but a few months ago it was AT&T that was down. So…. Hmmm. Logic …. Logic.
 
Dark_Omen said:
When will these telecom companies hire competent IT people that know how to run an efficient system.
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The issue isn't that. The bean counters don't want to invest or do proper disaster recovery planning or drills. Same issue a few years ago Wells Fargo had a multi-day outage.
 
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TheMountainLife said:
The issue isn't that. The bean counters don't want to invest or do proper disaster recovery planning or drills. Same issue a few years ago Wells Fargo had a multi-day outage.
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I can assure you the IT at these companies is crap. Everything from the point of sale systems to their customer facing websites. I deal with it everyday.
 
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JohnC1959 said:
5+ hours and counting. But at least it gave me a good chance to try out satellite text messages. Though eventually that said that the satellite text message service was temporarily out of service. They may have disabled the message service to give priority to 911 calls via satellite
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I used it ! Worked great, took awhile to send a message but it got through
 
dominiongamma said:
I used it ! Worked great, took awhile to send a message but it got through
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Here is southern IN near Louisville KY I was NOT able to get the SOS (non-Emergency) Text message to work. I disconnected from WiFi and it correctly asked me if I wanted to use the service. It tracked the Satellite but then told me the service was unavailable. I tried twice with the same results. So, maybe location matters for this option…. <Shrug>
 
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Dark_Omen said:
I can assure you the IT at these companies is crap. Everything from the point of sale systems to their customer facing websites. I deal with it everyday.
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Yeah that's not the levels of IT I'm referring to. Not the entry level front line moles. I'm talking about the system engineers that are in the data centers that don't interact with anyone outside of their team.
 
Does anyone know if FedEx is affected by the Verizon outage? As of this morning, I was supposed to have a phone delivered that showed out for delivery. Now it’s well passed estimated delivery time and status is stuck at “we experienced a problem“
 
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Does anyone know if FedEx is affected by the Verizon outage? As of this morning, I was supposed to have a phone delivered that showed out for delivery. Now it’s well passed estimated delivery time and status is stuck at “we experienced a problem“
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All of my fedex and ups packages have been hours past the estimated time lately. :(. Good luck with your package.
 
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