Verizon experiencing widespread outage across the US

42 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by mikece
(9to5mac.com)

14 Comments

runjake

5 minutes ago

I am back online as of 2PM PDT in or.us.

whalesalad

7 hours ago

My 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.

cebert

6 hours ago

We also had issues in Michigan with Verizon, but they seem to be corrected now.

vanillax

4 hours ago

Im from Michigan and its not corrected in Michigan yet.

mikece

7 hours ago

1. 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

5 hours ago

afaik most carriers in the US offer a form of voip over wifi. it needs to be enabled for your phone.

runjake

3 hours ago

This is called "Wi-Fi Calling" and it also seems to be down for those affected. (n =~ 150 phones I'm tracking)

twoWhlsGud

an hour ago

On my phone in Seattle Verizon Wi-Fi calling doesn't work but FaceTime audio does.

m_herrlich

5 hours ago

With most 2fa systems going through people's cell phones, this is scary.

mikece

2 hours ago

2FA 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

3 hours ago

SOS mode in Utah also.

user

7 hours ago

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