Verizon Wireless Outage Leaves Phones in SOS Mode
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEVerizon's[1] network president wrote on 31 August that 'yesterday afternoon and evening' customers lost service; CBS dates the first reports 'shortly after 12 p.m. ET on Saturday' and quotes Verizon that 'by midnight' service was fully restored.
A software issue knocked Verizon Wireless customers from California to Florida into SOS mode for much of Saturday afternoon, with Downdetector reports peaking near 23,000 before service was restored by midnight.