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Verizon outages reported across U.S.
- adsfsadf 9mo agogood morning sirs
- rcpt 9mo agoSeems like it's happening on the West Coast to
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- eob 9mo agoSome outlets reporting T-Mobile and ATT as well. I assume state on state cyber attacks are commonplace but get minimized to avoid public fear.. perhaps this will be the first notable one.
- in0v8r 9mo agoThe alternative network reports are most likely people trying to call Verizon customers and reporting an outage when they can't get through.
- eob 9mo agoYou think like a person who’s debugged large systems failures before :). That feels very plausible.
- madcaptenor 9mo agoI've seen it happen before - in the big AT&T outage a couple years ago reports came in on downdetector of outages for other providers.
- mrits 9mo agoT-Mobile is up and Verizon is down in my house
- mosura 9mo agoEstonia was the first major NATO victim of such things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia Made worse by the fact Estonia is a more networked society than, for example, the US.
- swsieber 9mo agoThe down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me. https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/ https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/ ~ 1,600 https://downdetector.com/status/att/ https://downdetector.com/status/att/ ~ 1,500 https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/ https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/ ~ peaked at ~169k, dropped to 67k
- andrewinardeer 9mo agoGrok 4.1 down too: https://status.x.ai/api-us-east-1/INC10b35980 https://status.x.ai/api-us-east-1/INC10b35980
- embedding-shape 9mo agoThe US would never purposefully cut of it's own communications, right? What would be the tells if that would have happened? And what could the average citizen do to be able to communicate regardless? Might be useful to always have that knowledge around, even if it isn't a personal threat to yourself today.
- fractal618 9mo agoDidn’t they just raid a reporters house. I wonder what service provider they used…
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- jerlam 9mo agoSadly this has happened before: BART Defends Cutting Off Cell Service In Subway https://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139664637/bart-defends-cutting-off-cellphone-service https://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139664637/bart-defends-cuttin... And will happen again.
- Meekro 9mo agoI think one of the tells might be that all major providers go down, not just one.
- chankstein38 9mo agoGet into Meshtastic or Meshcore! (So far I prefer meshtastic) It's a citizen-run mesh network that allows text communication. It's not perfect and not 100% reliable (signal and hops limit delivery guarantees) but it's better than 0 ways to communicate in this kind of event!
- johnisgood 9mo agoThe link just redirects me to https://www.youtube.com/c/FirstCoastNews https://www.youtube.com/c/FirstCoastNews.
- neb_b 9mo agodowndetector is showing a lot of down mobile networks & services
- reb 9mo agoYeah, this is notable. If true, every mobile carrier getting hit at the same time says "coordinated incident", from whatever source and for whatever purpose. Edit to say: my Verizon FioS and cell service are both working fine, no noticeable interruption at any point today. Second edit to say: never mind, downdetector's home page normalizes report spikes so 1k and 100k both look identical.
- swsieber 9mo agoThe down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me. ~60-160k vs ~1.5-1.8k
- schmuckonwheels 9mo agoI see multiple posts here speculating on cyberattack—as opposed to "we pushed a bad configuration update which messed everything up irreparably"—you know, like it has been every other time before this. E.g., Cloudflare, Meta (who in doing so also locked themselves out of the building), and didn't some bumbling major Canadian telco knock themselves offline for like a week not too long ago?
- embedding-shape 9mo agoThat's not true though, sometimes it's inexplicitly DNS too.
- schmuckonwheels 9mo agoMy money is on expired certificate. If so, successful test.
- Xylakant 9mo agoThe great thing is that with all of the encrypted/signed DNS thingys, you now have not one, but multiple options to combine “invalid certificate” and DNS in one outage. You no longer need to choose!
- snorbleck 9mo agoit's always DNS
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- Scubabear68 9mo agoOur Comcast DNS keeps going in and out too, not clear if it is related or knock on effect or something else entirely.
- syntaxing 9mo agoI’m somewhat surprised you’re still using your ISP’s DNS when there’s ton of better free or paid options.
- venturecruelty 9mo ago"You relied on a service you pay for to actually work? What are you, stupid?"
- godzillabrennus 9mo agoWhen that service actively spies on you, then yes, that is stupid...
- jiggawatts 9mo agoThat’s… weirdly a thing. Do you use your car’s built in navigation function — that you paid for — or do you plug your phone in and use its free Google Maps or Apple Maps to navigate?
- mmmlinux 9mo agoYes actually, I happen to save the built in GPS for occasions when the phone network is inaccessible.
- venturecruelty 9mo agoI didn't pay for any navigation for my car, so I'm not sure what your point is? ISPs provide DNS. People shouldn't have to fuck with the internet's phone book when they plug their modem in (and they haven't for a very long time). Maybe we can expect more from the people who provide the services society relies on, instead of just saying "why don't you just..." every time someone has a legitimate complaint about something that ought to Just Work.
- refulgentis 9mo agoWest coast too, down in LA at same time (12 PM EST / 9 AM PST). I think they’re way way way underselling the # affected (“thousands” lol)
- kensai 9mo agoIt’s Denmark! Ο_o
- daveguy 9mo agoVerizon acknowledged the issue: https://xcancel.com/VerizonNews/status/2011500483072954495 https://xcancel.com/VerizonNews/status/2011500483072954495 https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/ shows verizon, tmobile, and att. BUT if you look at the magnitude of the outages for tmobile and att vs verizon it's fractions of a percent. Likely those people with tmobile and att reporting when they have trouble communicating with verizon customers. (Note, you have to click on the providers to see absolute magnitude -- the graphs are scaled to show relative outage over time within a given provider; order of 150k verizon vs 1.5k others)
- noncoml 9mo ago> Verizon acknowledged the issue: > https://xcancel.com/VerizonNews/status/2011500483072954495 https://xcancel.com/VerizonNews/status/2011500483072954495 Looking at the replies some of the people who are more worried about the outage seem to be the OF models Not judging or trying to make a point. Just find it interesting the ways things are interconnected
- relium 9mo ago>Note, you have to click on the providers to see absolute magnitude I noticed that a little while ago too. Very bad UI. Tempted to post in r/dataisugly.
- tantalor 9mo agoHere's a map: https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/ https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/
- kotaKat 9mo agoI've got a Verizon Network Extender and it appears to be online - the tunnel is up back to VZW's security gateway, but all of my phones are refusing to register to it. I did manage to roam onto an international network on the boarder near me in New York/Canada, so some bits of the core seem functional for authentication. When I roam internationally I appear to be on Telus's 3G network (no LTE) for data and voice is falling even further back it looks like.
- wildzzz 9mo agoI could see Verizon access points but just couldn't connect to any of them. I had no issue sending texts over wifi though.
- Nextgrid 9mo agoParts of the HLR might be unavailable or under a thundering herd as all phones are trying to register at once. The HLR would also be involved if using EAP-SIM/EAP-AKA so that would explain failures on the Wi-Fi access points.
- threecheese 9mo agoSame. Femtocell is online but no clients, phones on SOS mode.
- _nickwhite 9mo agoAt 2:14PM EST, Verizon said: "Verizon engineering teams are continuing to address today's service interruptions. Our teams remain fully deployed and are focused on the issue. We understand the impact this has on your day and remain committed to resolving this as quickly as possible." As someone responsible my whole career for uptime and network response, I really feel for the engineers, at the same time hoping my service comes back up soon. SOS
- downrightmike 9mo agoOdds are they have a ton of outsourced engineers who are an ocean away and unable to do anything.
- venturecruelty 9mo agoAt least the shareholders have had an amazing quarter. :)
- Nextgrid 9mo agoThat's very often the case. I bet there are frantic calls being made right now (probably using a competing carrier!) to Ericsson/etc to come to their rescue, which they happily will in exchange for a hefty fee.
- mmooss 9mo agoNo ETA yet, not even an underpromised one.
- syntaxing 9mo agoRecently downloaded bitchat so I can contact my family members if outages like this happen when we’re out and about. I got a few T1000 cards for meshtastic but there’s just too much friction to teach my spouse and others how and when to use it. I wish haloW was built into phones which would make long range local communication much better.
- mtlynch 9mo agoDoes bitchat work during a phone outage? Range on BLE is pretty low, right, so I'd expect it to not do much unless you happen to live in an area where there are bitchat users every 100 ft or so. I'm in a similar boat to you in wanting a LoRa mesh. I tried out MeshCore on the LilyGo T-Deck+ hoping it would be a device I could hand out to family members, but I found the hardware and software disappointing.[0] But I'm weirdly tempted to try the LilyGo Pager. [0] https://mtlynch.io/first-impressions-of-meshcore/#testing-the-lilygo-t-deck https://mtlynch.io/first-impressions-of-meshcore/#testing-th...
- syntaxing 9mo agoUnfortunately as you said, the range is abysmal since it uses BLE. It’s barely enough for a box store but it’s better than nothing. I like the idea of the lilygo pager too. I first thought it was e-ink from some of the pictures but sadly it was not.
- shibapuppie 9mo agoThe "T5 E-Paper S3 Pro” is an iPhone-like e-paper phone form factor WITH a LoRa radio from lilygo, if it would interest you.
- crims0n 9mo agoReally neat concept but that name is so unfortunate. Is it bit-chat or bitch-at? Frankly either would work.
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- alexzenla 9mo agoNot sure why this says East coast, I am also affected here in Seattle.
- RandallBrown 9mo agoWeird. My Verizon is working fine in Seattle.
- galleywest200 9mo agoSame in Seattle. Turned of Wifi and the data connection still let me online.
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- mikeweiss 9mo agoFor those who weren't aware: Verizon got a new CEO late last year and laid off 15% of the workforce (15,000 people). This included people working in network, IT and cyber security.
- schmuckonwheels 9mo agoIs there a substantive connection? Like all the doom and gloom after the Twitter layoffs predicting the site would implode and go permanently offline "within a month" which...never happened. It's also ironic in the sense it implies the indignant people were so bad at their jobs they designed and built a system so fragile it would collapse without constant intervention from thousands of individuals. You do realize it's possible for an organization to be overstaffed?
- happytoexplain 9mo agoThis is unrealistic and seems to be biased by some kind of broad un-focused hostility. Yes, maybe they were overstaffed. But it's reasonable to suspect that leadership overcut, given the current climate and the number being 15,000. Your characterization of Twitter predictions relies on cherry-picking and ignores the actual impacts, and there's no evidence that the system goes down without "constant" intervention from "thousands". Your tone also implies that large, complex systems, even if designed well, don't normally require a lot of maintenance from many people.
- schmuckonwheels 9mo ago>Your tone also implies that large, complex systems, even if designed well, don't normally require a lot of maintenance from many people. That's correct. In the case of Twitter, it was disclosed that many of their systems were running out of date EOL software, to the point of being a security liability, which raises the question: if the systems weren't being maintained, wtf were all those people doing? Taste-testing the free food and cappuccinos?
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- downrightmike 9mo agoThis is what happens when you invest more in lobbying than the network
- Vaslo 9mo agoI have two Verizon phones on very different networks and both have not been working well since Tuesday - anyone also having this? I kept restarting my phones, airplane mode on/off etc
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- bobbob1921 9mo agoi know alot are joking / sarcastic about its a cyber attack- that said, Wouldn't it make more sense that whenever there is a "cyber attack" its more likely it would only affect one provider? ie, each has to have different systems / security postures ect, such that a non-public vuln useful to attack Verizon would likely not be exploitable/exposed at AT&T (or vise versa)?
- dylan604 9mo agowhy are you saying that this is affecting more than one provider?
- bobbob1921 9mo agoi'm not saying that, I was asking more of a general question, others were saying that multiple carriers were having issues (w the only proof being downdetector and their incorrectly scaled Y axis graphs)
- joecool1029 9mo agoLol it's network core. Postpaid users on Verizon branded accounts affected. Most MVNO's just fine (checked US Mobile and Visible, different cores... and they are working fine on the Verizon towers)
- cormorant 9mo agoFurther info: https://old.reddit.com/r/cellmapper/comments/1qcwj48/observations_during_the_verizon_outage_today/ https://old.reddit.com/r/cellmapper/comments/1qcwj48/observa...
- joecool1029 9mo agoT-Mobile had this issue 5 years or so ago where the IMS core went down due to fiber issues at one of their major backbone providers (pretty sure it was zayo). As I've said elsewhere, never underestimate Verizon's incompetence. A couple years ago they shut down vtext service which also happened to host their UAprof's for most Android phones. Without a working link to these descriptors, those devices would download any MMS (pre-RCS picture messages) in compatibility mode at the lowest resolution.
- NoSalt 9mo agoI find this kind of odd. Yesterday, 2026-01-13, I - who lives in the greater Washington D.C. area - experienced A LOT of Verizon disruption. However, today, my service has been excellent. Maybe I'm from the future and don't know it. Did anybody else in my general area experience outages yesterday?
- apitman 9mo agoI got sniped away from Visible (Verizon MVNO) by US Mobile (multi-carrier MVNO) during a Black Friday sale. USM has an interesting thing where you can actually get a separate eSIM for each of the major carriers, and switch between them. I was curious so I signed up for all 3. It's been interesting to see how the signals vary from location to location, and at least a couple times I've been able to get significantly better signal by switching. The main downside is that you have different numbers for each eSIM, but that doesn't really affect me because I use Google Voice for SMS.
- BirAdam 9mo agoI switched to US Mobile a long time ago just due to pricing. I was WFH most days of the week (before Covid) so I could do minimal data and pay around $100/yr for unlimited talk/text. Now, I do unlimited everything as I commute 5 days each week, but it's only $200/yr. Still significant savings.
- peaseagee 9mo agoUnfortunately GV has been having a ~week outage of outgoing MMS group messages. Well, let's say a brownout – many messages make it through to some recipients. https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/THtvkDYkSBrQpo3vh82V https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/THtvkD...
- apitman 9mo agoLooks like they fixed it today. But yeah I probably should have clarified that Google Voice has been a pretty terrible UX and quality overall for years. I really need to just bite the bullet and port my number out.
- tony_cannistra 9mo agoI really love US Mobile. I was a flagship postpaid $90/mo VZW customer for a decade and was so hesitant to switch. It's been 4 years now, and all I can say is that I can't believe I waited so long.
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- ardit33 9mo agoI am in Miami right now, and verizon is not working here. (I get the SOS sign).
- lbcadden3 9mo agoPhone hasn’t had a connection for hours. 5G wireless home is fine. Upstate South Carolina.
- _nickwhite 9mo agoIt's also weird that some people here in the office on Verizon work fine, and others are on SOS. No correlation between phone versions or hardware that I could deduce. I also see the same on X: https://x.com/CPTholen/status/2011520566159982758 https://x.com/CPTholen/status/2011520566159982758 It came up for around 5-10 minutes at 15:00 EST, but is currently still down.
- Meekro 9mo agoMy wife and I are on the same Verizon family plan. One of us can be down while the other is fine, then 30 minutes later it's the opposite. It's been like that all day.
- Scubabear68 9mo agoSame here, except that when here (central-western NJ) when someone "recovers" here we go from SOS to a few bars but no LTE or 5G indicator. Yikes.
- observationist 9mo agoIf they're on different phones, they could be on different bands, different towers, and different paths, one or more of which could be impacted by whatever the underlying problem is. iPhone vs Android would be the most blatant tell that something like this is at fault, but it could also be different configurations from different stores causing them to interact with the cellular network in different ways. Something like a routing configuration, BGP failure, or underlying network misconfiguration would cause seemingly bizarre results with some phones working and some not with no obvious correlation. Compare Access Point Names under Mobile Settings on android, and whatever the equivalent is on iPhones, and check things like whether 5G allowed and data roaming is enabled. If it's a cyber attack of some sort, then there's all sorts of different attack vectors that would cause these outcomes.
- jedberg 9mo agoThis is what happens when you lay off 30% of your workforce.
- _nickwhite 9mo agoAnyone still using SMS for 2FA codes, here is your official notice to change that ASAP.
- hprotagonist 9mo agoif you can!
- Scubabear68 9mo agoI get the sentiment, but at least for me at home, iOS iMessage still works fine with Wifi. So it's not impacted, and in fact I had to relogin to a client machine with a very persnickety 2FA and it had no issues.
- fron 9mo agoMany (most?) services offer a choice between SMS 2FA and no 2FA. It's not always so easy.
- nunez 9mo agoBut banking apps.
- matltc 9mo agoApparently only affecting east coast numbers. Some server in NJ is down
- joecool1029 9mo agoSince this outage is still going on just a town away from their HQ... porting still works to get you going again on the same towers. You can get the device unlock pin from Verizon postpaid sent through a push message to the device so it doesn't rely on SMS. Ironically I was planning to port my parents from Verizon to US Mobile to save them some money since they aren't financing any devices (there's a sale from them that ends today) and I've just done that on the first line and I now have service on that line with Verizon, where the remaining Verizon postpaid is still dead.
- morpheos137 9mo agoMaybe installing a beam splitter went wrong?
- memcg 9mo agoI still received 23 telemarketing calls today on my Verizon phone in Maryland.
- asne11 9mo agoI was unable to receive SMS based OTP from my bank yesterday for a couple of hours... Wonder if it's related. Anyone else?
- eth0up 9mo agoMy service was out for approximately 7 hours. But I pose a question that I've been wondering since: I have a Moto. Updates are explicitly disabled. A lot of stuff has been deactivated via ADB. While Moto does try to force sneak updates against my settings and will, on occasion, I just so happened to grab my phone today and at approximately the very moment of the outage, noticed an unsolicited Moto update, which I cancelled. But at that moment, cellular was or went down (~1400) and remained so until ~2200. Was this a coincidence, or could something much more interesting have happened, eg a serious security breach? An interesting coincidence, for me. I spent the day convinced that Moto sent a kill sig wanting me to buy a new phone.
- _nickwhite 9mo agoThanks a lot eth0up, we all went down waiting on you to accept that Moto update.
- eth0up 9mo agoI have updates blocked, which is why the simultaneous update seemed odd. In my wild imagination, I vaguely surmised something involving compromise. I'm not sure what you're implying though, probably something spiteful.
- IAmBroom 9mo agoI had a Verizon outage Monday. I called my neighbor who also has Verizon; hers was out. But hers came back on when she paid her bill, oops! So... I went to their website, which said "You have a local outage! Click here to know more...". I clicked there, and it said "There are no outages in your area." OK, so we've established that Verizon's website doesn't know shit. I started troubleshooting with a tech support person ("I am in ... New... Jersey" - sure you are...), and discovered my optical interface whatsit was hanging by its cables in my basement, mysteriously knocked off its wall bolts. This happened sometime in the last 10 days, so it's a smoking gun. I called for a repairman, because obviously the fall damaged the fiber alignment... ... except it didn't. The tree limb across the street that broke the cable coming into my house did cause a problem. So... Verizon outages are complicated, and despite all their technical know-how, they don't really know shit.