On January 14, 2026, Verizon customers across the United States faced one of the most disruptive outages in recent memory. Beginning around 12:30 PM ET, users reported being unable to make calls, send ...

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If your phone is suddenly displaying "SOS," "no service," or "emergency calls only" and you're on Verizon's network, it's probably not your phone's fault, and you're certainly not alone. More than 100 ...

UPDATE: About 9:30 Wednesday night, Version said, “The outage has been resolved. If customers are still having an issue, we encourage them to restart their devices to reconnect to the network.” Users ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why Your Verizon Phone Might Be in SOS Mode Right Now - Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com If you're a Verizon customer who's noticed ...

A widespread Verizon cell phone service outage affected customers across the United States. At its peak, nearly 177,000 outages were reported to the monitoring site DownDetector. Many users' phones ...

Downdetector reported 126,169 Verizon outage reports as of 1:16 p.m. ET and as many as 180,152 outage reports at 12:46 p.m. ET. The cities with the most reported Verizon outages include: A Verizon ...

Seeing SOS on your phone? You're not alone. Verizon confirmed an outage on its mobile delivery service on Wednesday that was impacting thousands of users Downdetector, a website that tracks service ...

Verizon said Wednesday night that its wireless service was back online after having suffered an outage affecting cellular data and voice services for much of the day. A spokesperson for the company ...

Seeing an 'SOS' at the top of your phone? Verizon customers are feeling the outage. As of 12:37 p.m. ET, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, approximately 157,596 Verizon customers are reporting outages, USA Today ...