FCC investigating Verizon mobile network outage for thousands of users in US

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[ridesthemiles]

Started life with a phone on the wall with a crank-—
20 party line

Still have slimline phone & land line ONLY.

Ran a bookkeeping business for over 44 years with only a land line & an answering machine.

[caww]

Yep....my mom had a crank wall phone, I was very little then but I remember how it rank... then a dial phone.

I found this dial phone I have at a roadside rummage sale . My kids all think I need to invest in hooking up the three cell phones they got for me. But it's just another expense to get those plans. Besides they all require long distance. Plus I don't want to be available 24/7... I already get enough of their ‘butt calls’! My son got me one of those street finders for my car too. I used it once while traveling and had to stop anyway just to find out how to use it! Maps are fine for how much I travel.

[hanamizu]

I still have a land-line and will continue to do so.

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I have an ATT land line and every month I get a letter telling me that I can pay less if they switch me over to amounts to a cell phone service that pretends it is a land line. I wonder when the offer won’t be voluntary. Cell service here is spotty at best.

[webheart]

He went to a local store and they didn’t know anything. What a surprise.

[mjustice]

This exact same issue happened in the Hudson Valley (NY) back at the end of July — from West Point to just south of Albany. There was a fire in the Poughkeepsie Data Center that knocked everything out.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Out here in the mountains of Colorado. Wife works from home and I’m about to call up that dopey Kamela to borrow some of her Xanex or something, cuz she is having a fit! Ugh!!!

[RoseofTexas]

FCC is that the same government establishment that gave SOROS the OK to buy all the Spanish language radio stations across the nation? The FCC can go and you know what itself! CORRUPT POS!

[Husker24]

I just got mine back 5 minutes ago, been down all day, I’m in SE Nebraska.

[lightman]

Seems like Verizon had most of the cell phone infrastructure in Helene’s path...I suspect a correlation.

[TexasGator]

“Why is this a government issue unless terror/criminally related?”

Government regulated airways.

[griswold3]

Yup! Here with you

[fuzzylogic]

I had this happen today. Landed in Santa Ana airport, Orange Co., CA. My iPhone just said ‘SOS’. I had to go into ‘airplane mode’ and back out before it’d correctly connect to the cell service.

[Jane Long]

Phones go on SOS often during flights. They’re constantly pinging trying to find a cell tower...even while up in the air.

[NorseWood]

THANKS!! I just went to airplane mode and out of it again and I now have service!

[dynachrome]

Rumor (Laura Loomer, FWIW) sez it is a hack or cyber attack

[Mogger]

Started life with a phone on the wall with a crank-—

I started life with no electricity or phone.

Then a 12 party land line at 7 years old.

Now cell phone, tablet, laptop, Ham radio general license, Icom 7100, Icom 718, 2 Icom automatic antenna tuners, various antennas and masts.

For those who want communications that work, put forth a little effort, and get your general ham license.

[linMcHlp]

good to know; tx