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Verizon experiencing widespread outage across the US
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- whalesalad 2y agoMy wife's is in SOS mode here in Michigan. She can't even make calls over Wifi with the wifi calling feature enabled. I'm on AT&T which is fortunately up and working - but it sucks so bad at a baseline level that it might as well be having an outage too lol.
- mikece 2y ago1. How many people have a VoIP solution on their phones to use over WiFi in a case like this? 2. What is the percentage of homes with twisted pair landlines down to these days?
- whalesalad 2y agoafaik most carriers in the US offer a form of voip over wifi. it needs to be enabled for your phone.
- runjake 2y agoThis is called "Wi-Fi Calling" and it also seems to be down for those affected. (n =~ 150 phones I'm tracking)
- twoWhlsGud 2y agoOn my phone in Seattle Verizon Wi-Fi calling doesn't work but FaceTime audio does.
- runjake 2y agoYep. Wi-Fi Calling is a mix of GRE/IPSec tunnels to carrier servers (which were still functioning during the outage) that then hook into cellular infra on the backend (which wasn't working). On my firewall, I was seeing phones make that GRE tunnel connection, but it was just a gaping void after that. FaceTime does not use cellular infra at all (except as a potential IP network interface)
- cebert 2y agoWe also had issues in Michigan with Verizon, but they seem to be corrected now.
- vanillax 2y agoIm from Michigan and its not corrected in Michigan yet.
- cheshire137 2y agoI'm in SOS mode in Tennessee.
- m_herrlich 2y agoWith most 2fa systems going through people's cell phones, this is scary.
- mikece 2y ago2FA via SMS is 1.3FA at best: an inherently insecure medium on a network that can go down. What's more annoying is that most web services won't allow the use of VoIP numbers for 2FA.
- hopsoft 2y agoSOS mode in Utah also.
- awslattery 2y agoStill down in AZ.
- runjake 2y agoI am back online as of 2PM PDT in or.us.