# Major Verizon wireless outage
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 14, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693 "2026-01-14T18:24:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/21 "2026-01-14T21:08:41Z")
I guess I’m in a really bad area for it. Not even a hint of it working for the last four hours.
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/22 "2026-01-14T22:43:36Z")
They either fixed it, or I wasn’t affected. NYC and my phone connects fine when wifi is turned off.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2026, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/23 "2026-01-14T23:24:53Z")
I’m still out here.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/24 "2026-01-15T01:55:19Z")
Going between 2 bars and SOS.
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2026, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/25 "2026-01-15T01:58:51Z")
Worked fine for me in Chicago too. If it went out I never noticed. To be fair, my phone doesn’t exactly ring off the hook either so good chance I would not notice.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2026, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/26 "2026-01-15T02:13:56Z")
I just tried calling my mom, in Cleveland. Her Verizon home phone rang but then immediately disconnected, but her T-Mobile mobile is still working. I’m glad she still has communications.
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### Author:  [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/27 "2026-01-15T04:22:50Z")
The service on my phone was finally restored around 9pm. Then I got a flood of missed text messages at 9:31 pm. Since I was getting some text messages intermittently all afternoon, I now have a couple of text threads where the messages are all out of order. But things seem to be stable now.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/28 "2026-01-16T14:29:34Z")
Verizon is giving a $20 credit for the inconvenience. You have to go on the app and request it. I have no idea if it will be given to everyone or only those affected.
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/29 "2026-01-16T14:37:41Z")
Is anything being offered to those who use Verizon thru a MVNO carrier, like xfinity or would that be up to the individual carriers?
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/30 "2026-01-16T15:06:24Z")
If you don’t pay through Verizon I don’t see how that would work.
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/31 "2026-01-16T15:43:28Z")
I agree, it’s just one more negative to using a MVNO. Sure they cost less, but you’re already being deprecated when there is high network volume, now you don’t get credit for lack of service.
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### Author:  [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-verizon-wireless-outage/1026693/32 "2026-01-16T16:12:58Z")
Which is obviously because some people won’t find or or will forget to claim it or … Because if they can send me a text message saying the credit is available, they could have just applied it automatically.
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