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Verizon today announced it will be offering customers a $20 account credit after a major outage on Wednesday, and action is required to receive it.

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The carrier said affected customers can accept the credit by logging into the My Verizon app, but it might take some time before this option shows up in the app. Affected customers will receive a text message when the credit is available.

On average, Verizon says the $20 credit covers multiple days of service.

"This credit isn't meant to make up for what happened," it said. "But it's a way of acknowledging your time and showing that this matters to us."

Verizon once again apologized for the outage.

"We are sorry for what you experienced and will continue to work hard day and night to provide the outstanding network and service that you expect from Verizon," it said.



Verizon said that customers who are still experiencing issues should restart their device, as a quick way of reconnecting to the network following the outage.

The outage began mid-day on Wednesday, and Verizon was finally able to fully resolve it around 10 p.m. Eastern Time. The downtime affected the ability to make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and use mobile data.

AT&T offered customers a lower $5 credit after it experienced a major outage in February 2024.

Article Link: Verizon Offering $20 Credit After Major Outage, Here's How to Get It
 
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Why is it not automatically applied?
I agree that would be the right thing to do (and with a functioning FCC maybe it would be legally mandated).

But I think they're hoping only people angry about it will bother jumping through the hoops to redeem. If even 10% of users don't bother, they've saved millions and can still take credit for compensating customers.
 
Why is it not automatically applied?
Isn't it obvious?

Verizon has to pay out less when people are required to take action and ask for it. For some people, they might mistake the text message as spam and not bother reading it.

The carrier said affected customers can accept the credit by logging into the My Verizon app, but it might take some time before this option shows up in the app. Affected customers will receive a text message when the credit is available.
 
At least they are offering something, but I don't think I'll ever go back to a major postpaid carrier at this point. I had no issues whatsoever with Visible, and the math for buying my own phone unlocked from Apple with an MVNO easily beats out any postpaid offer.
 
Someone needs to "offer" Verizon a class-action lawsuit, which will likely give users the same $20 credit but also penalize Verizon with fines and lawyer fees for much more.
Ridiculous. No need for a class action lawsuit. We do people automatically go there ? They had some troubles and now its been fixed. Are you one of those people that sue when someone looks at your wrong. Good grief.
 
This is dubious, perhaps for public optics. First of all, I suspect this was a state-sponsored attack, but that's a separate matter -- and despite the implications, I don't see it being covered in news media (go figure).

I had to go into the Verizon app, where I found no such notice; got into chat, negotiated with AI to talk with a human; transferred. I mentioned the issue, posted the URL; transferred to another 'specialist' which I suspect had AI involved. I provided the direct URL again from the Verizon website; should be simple, right? Nope! After a long pause, I had to log in to the website on my Macbook to see that the credit was applied, but the AI bot wanted to ask me for feedback, and if I wanted to hear about other news, etc. LOL

I think they hope you won't find out about it, as they stand to lose a lot of $. But I eventually got the credit.
 
At least they are offering something, but I don't think I'll ever go back to a major postpaid carrier at this point. I had no issues whatsoever with Visible, and the math for buying my own phone unlocked from Apple with an MVNO easily beats out any postpaid offer.


Depends on your personal risk tolerances are and what you need it for. If its working for you great. You can definitely save money but for me a smartphone has become such a critical device at this point due to job needing hotspots and just what the phone is used for(everything thing from banking/digital pay to maps, calls..etc) that there is no chance I would ever go to a MVNO over a MNO.

There is a reason its cheaper. It can be just as good but its usually survivorship bias in that you haven't been a situation where its stastically more prone to fail. Also if you have ever been in a disaster situation you are at much greater risk of data de-prioritization during network congestion and much less chance at getting emergency infrastructure like portable cell sites. But if that doesnt impact you yeah its no question cheaper.
 
It's interesting that the outage only affected Xfinity Mobile; the other MVNOs don't seem to have been affected.
 
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