Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide

Verizon phones crossed the US person had problem connecting since astir noon Eastern, Verizon says it’s alert of the issue.

The first large outage of 2026 is here, arsenic Verizon customers crossed the US, including respective of our phones, kick that work has been spotty aliases nonexistent starting astatine astir noon ET, pinch phones switching to SOS Mode and being incapable to connect. This compartment work outage follows a “software issue” that trim disconnected work for galore group in August for respective hours, and while Verizon has acknowledged the issue, location is nary connection yet connected erstwhile it will beryllium fixed.

On DownDetector, the number of reports listed has dropped to astir 130,000 aft peaking pinch astir double that astatine astir 1PM ET, but according to our ain testing, arsenic good arsenic different posts connected social media, galore phones are still offline aliases only connecting intermittently. We person contacted Verizon, and will update this article erstwhile much accusation is available.