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Verizon phone service goes down for some customers
Fox Business ^ | Fox Business

Posted on 01/14/2026 2:24:19 PM PST by jimjohn

Verizon users are suffering outages impacting voice and data services, the company confirmed on Wednesday.

Verizon announced in a statement on social media that its engineers are aware of the situation and are working to resolve the issue, which affected users around the U.S.

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As of 1:14 PM ET , AT&T, U.S. Celluar, and Xfinity were also experiencing outages
1 posted on 01/14/2026 2:24:19 PM PST by jimjohn
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To: jimjohn

Did the Russian jambing gear, go global


2 posted on 01/14/2026 2:25:38 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: jimjohn

...i.e., not tinfoil nonsense. I should also add that we reportedly have our enemies making open threats and/or warnings against us, and that’s not even counting the domestic knuckleheads running around out here.


3 posted on 01/14/2026 2:28:29 PM PST by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: jimjohn

https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/business/t-mobile-trolls-verizon-outage-that-left-rival-carriers-users-outraged/


4 posted on 01/14/2026 2:36:37 PM PST by DFG
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To: jimjohn

It sounds like backhoe fade to me.


5 posted on 01/14/2026 2:48:25 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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My daughter and I are on the same account. She works about 30 miles north of where I work. Her phone worked fine all day, mine did not. Curious.


6 posted on 01/14/2026 3:02:06 PM PST by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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To: George from New England

Window jambing? Or door jambing?


7 posted on 01/14/2026 3:06:25 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: jimjohn

Show me an AT&T outage, aside from inter-carrier connections, please.


8 posted on 01/14/2026 3:08:18 PM PST by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: lucky american
Mine's been out since around noon central time. No big deal for me since it's too cold to get out much -- my Wifi calling at home has been fine because my Spectrum internet service is fine.

Them being down this long is NOT a good look. Verizon may have to use straight characters for their home internet ads.

9 posted on 01/14/2026 3:11:23 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: jimjohn

Can you hear me now?


10 posted on 01/14/2026 3:11:47 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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My neighbor’s I phone was down but my android is up.
Both Verizon.


11 posted on 01/14/2026 3:14:39 PM PST by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: Blueflag
I had horrible problems with home internet AT&T service. I ditched them about 6 or 7 years ago.

As far as cell service goes, 16 or 17 years ago after my wife and I moved to where we are now (close to 20 years ago), I got tired of my T-Mobile service not being good in this area. So I asked all the teenage friends of our kids who'd visit our kids which of them had good service at and near our house. Hands down Verizon was the best. So I switched to them and haven't had a problem with them. (Obviously with wifi calling if I'm in the house it's about internet service.) But I'm talking also about depending on cell service while walking around on our 1.5 acre property away from the wifi, and about walking the 1.2 miles I walk around the neighborhood a few times a week.

Verizon's been great. Until today. LOL

12 posted on 01/14/2026 3:18:09 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

I was only referring to today.


13 posted on 01/14/2026 4:06:53 PM PST by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: George from New England

Russia? How about Denmark?


14 posted on 01/14/2026 4:27:44 PM PST by JeanLM (Islam:Religion of pieces.)
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To: tet68
My neighbor’s I phone was down but my android is up. Both Verizon.

My first suspicion would be an authentication protocol. Someone ran an update and the system then couldn't verify the SIM cards tied to certain phones.

15 posted on 01/14/2026 6:56:23 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: lucky american
My daughter and I are on the same account. She works about 30 miles north of where I work. Her phone worked fine all day, mine did not. Curious.

My family and I live in San Diego but myself, my wife, and both of my sons have East Cost region area codes. SOS all day.

My daughter has a West Coast area code and her phone was fine. We all live in the same house and have a family account under my name.

We all have iPhone 16s except my daughter who has a 15.

16 posted on 01/14/2026 7:06:02 PM PST by Drew68 (I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since yesterday. Save some tears for tomorrow.)
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To: jimjohn

I’m on Verizon with an iPhone and had no issues in Downeast Maine.


17 posted on 01/14/2026 7:14:17 PM PST by SIDENET
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18 posted on 01/14/2026 7:31:53 PM PST by Johnny Wumbo
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To: Blueflag; jimjohn

My expensive AT&T plan had been excellent for years. In the last nine months, only half the time I get an internet connection. Calls don’t arrive here, or when they do, the connection drops with scant warning. I’ll settle for a “fuzzy” voice on the other end.

Verison completely failed in my sorta-isolated location, so I switched to AT&T. They promised to refund my money when I had no service, but that’s NOT what I contracted for—and bought THEIR choice of Android Samsung Smartphone: “This the only phone we have at the store.”

(X 3 or 4 occasions).


19 posted on 01/14/2026 10:57:32 PM PST by Does so (☞Just three Presidential terms required to fundamentally transform America.....Dem☭¢rats)
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