Verizon’s wi-fi community is down for many individuals nationwide

The primary massive outage of 2026 is right here, as Verizon clients throughout the US, together with a number of of our telephones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent beginning at round midday ET, with telephones switching to SOS Mode and being unable to attach.

This cell service outage follows a “software program situation” that minimize off service for many individuals in August for a number of hours, and whereas Verizon has acknowledged the problem, there isn’t any phrase but on when it will likely be mounted.

We’re conscious of a difficulty impacting wi-fi voice and information providers for some clients. Our engineers are engaged and are working to establish and remedy the problem rapidly. We perceive how essential dependable connectivity is and apologize for the inconvenience.

The latest replace from Verizon’s information account on X posted at 4:12PM ET says:

Verizon’s staff is on the bottom actively working to repair in the present day’s service situation that’s impacting some clients. We all know it is a large inconvenience, and our high precedence is to get you again on-line and linked as quick as doable. We admire your endurance whereas we work to resolve this situation.

On DownDetector, the variety of experiences listed has dropped to about 50,000 after peaking with round 175,000 at round 1PM ET, however in response to our personal testing, in addition to different posts on social media, many telephones are nonetheless offline or solely connecting intermittently. We’ve contacted Verizon, and can replace this text when extra info is out there.

Replace, January 14th: Added 4:12PMET Verizon replace.