Verizon Outages

[Hummer]

Wife and I both have Verizon phones, had no issues in Parker. Wife mentioned hearing a rumor from a friend about an outage though.

I work in telecom and have dealt with lots of outages, LOTS of them. All kinds of things happen to underground and aerial cables, the numbers are staggering. Some crazy shit. This was likely an equipment issue.

We also have Verizon because it has the best coverage in rural areas of the state. It would be nice if Verizon would boost signal strength in the Grand Valley and throughout the state. And maybe it should be required for the service providers to post, text and e-mail notification of specific area outages just like Xcel Energy does.

[Great-Kazoo]

Verizon was down from the west coast , up thru the rocky mountains and other points in the SW 2 days ago. With rolling / sporadic connectivity, due to something going down in SoCal. We were w/out service for 6 hrs. No calls, but text worked. Along with this item.
https://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Prog...04&sr=8-6&th=1

[rondog]

Verizon was down from the west coast , up thru the rocky mountains and other points in the SW 2 days ago. With rolling / sporadic connectivity, due to something going down in SoCal. We were w/out service for 6 hrs. No calls, but text worked. Along with this item.
https://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Prog...04&sr=8-6&th=1

If that's the case, could have been a fiber cable cut somewhere, pretty common. IIRC, Verizon doesn't own their own cables, they lease fibers from other carriers in ther cables. So when a cut happens, they're dependent on the "landlord" getting the cable fixed asap. And the landlords don't always have their own construction, repair and splicing crews in the area, so contractors have to be rolled out. It can be an easy fix, or it can be a nightmare.

[Great-Kazoo]

If that's the case, could have been a fiber cable cut somewhere, pretty common. IIRC, Verizon doesn't own their own cables, they lease fibers from other carriers in ther cables. So when a cut happens, they're dependent on the "landlord" getting the cable fixed asap. And the landlords don't always have their own construction, repair and splicing crews in the area, so contractors have to be rolled out. It can be an easy fix, or it can be a nightmare.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/ver...WQjWoFNl4rI9Gg

[theGinsue]

There were reports of outages all over the US. I blame Putin

Yep. I was in Los Angeles and tried making calls on my Verizon phone - no luck. A coworker with a Verizon phone had the same issue. Luckily we had access to land lines so we were able to make essential work related calls.