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Karandeep Singh Oberoi
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Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication MobileSyrup.
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Verizon is in the news and not for a great reason. Being one of the biggest carriers in the US, any hiccup in its infrastructure is immediately felt by millions, and that's exactly what's happening right now.
Verizon is facing a major service outage that has now left a large portion of the US without basic connectivity. The last time the carrier suffered a major outage was during Labor Day weekend last year.
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Posts By Chethan RaoAccording to Downdetector, the outage began at roughly noon EST, and it seems to have peaked roughly forty minutes in. The platform registered over 175,000 outage reports during that time.
The carrier giant later acknowledged the outage on an X post, adding that it was working towards "resolving this as quickly as possible."
According to the platform's outage map, the hardest hit are those from New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, in no specific order.
As highlighted by several Verizon users on platforms like X, the most common symptom of the outage is the dreaded "SOS" icon. Many are still encountering the persistent issue, even though reports on Downdetector have fallen sharply.
Also worth noting is that even though Downdetector suggests that T-Mobile and AT&T are having issues too, that's likely not the exact case. Both T-Mobile and AT&T have confirmed that their respective networks are working fine, and reports about their networks being down stem from customers trying to reach those on Verizon's network.
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This article will be updated once Verizon's service has been fully restored.
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