Also 570 area code here...It happened to my landline phone and internet a couple of weeks back. I was on the phone with my daughter who lives around the corner when the phone went totally dead. I checked the computer and could not get online. My daughter’s phone and internet were dead too. The phone came back in about 45 minutes, then I had to reconfigure the computer with a Verizon technician later the same day. The phone company said there was a service outage in Lancaster (?) and another town I can’t recall, it also happened here but the woman on the phone kept insisting it only happened in the towns she was telling me
About a week later it happened again through the night but was back in an hour or so. There was no rain or anything either time.
Yeah, it’s been strange. I’ve been on now for about 45 minutes and have not been kicked off yet. This has been going on all week. We have friends who have been experiencing the same thing but others in our area have not. It was not until today that the Verizon recording said there was an outage in our area, but never had a problem like this before where some people have the problem and some people don’t, and then it being a random thing. In the past if it went down it was just down for a few hours and then fixed. Now you get on and you never know how long you will be on before you get kicked. Once kicked it could be minutes or hours before you can get back on again.
Having it be out all week like this has been so frustrating. You realize how dependent you are on the internet. My wife and I have been going to McDonald’s and Starbucks just to use their WiFi. Seems to be just a Verizon thing, but then, not everyone with Verizon within the same area. That’s also what is weird.