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Nationwide Verizon Outage Strands Customers in SOS Mode for 10 Hours
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE253 days agoVerizon's[1] update page reads 'As of 10:15 PM ET, the outage has been resolved' (14 January); ABC News[2] quotes Downdetector that customers 'began noticing interrupted service around noon Eastern time on Wednesday'.A software issue took down Verizon Wireless across the US for about ten hours, from around noon until 10:15 PM ET, with Downdetector counting more than 178,000 affected at the peak; Verizon gave affected customers a $20 credit.0.83FCC Lets Verizon Drop Its 60-Day Phone Unlocking Rule
Federal Communications Commission, 45 L Street Northeast, NoMa, Washington, DC 20554, United StatesVerizon…
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE255 days agoOrder DA 26-43 reads "Adopted: January 12, 2026 Released: January 12, 2026" and "this Order IS EFFECTIVE upon release"; it runs "until such time as the Commission decides on an appropriate industry-wide approach", so it has no end date.[1]The FCC waived the rule forcing Verizon alone among national carriers to unlock phones 60 days after activation, citing handset theft and trafficking; Verizon now follows the CTIA industry code until the FCC sets an industry-wide policy.0.66Verizon Completes Acquisition of Starry
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE237 days agoVerizon's[4] 2025 Form 10-K: "On January 30, 2026, we completed the acquisition of Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (Starry), a fixed wireless broadband provider serving multi-dwelling units in five markets across the U.S."Verizon closed its purchase of Starry, a fixed wireless provider serving about 100,000 apartment-building customers in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Denver and Washington with millimeter-wave technology.0.64Verizon Launches Satellite Texting to Any Phone on Android
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.5 years agoVerizon's[1][2][3] release of 19 March 2025: 'Upgrades enabling this service start today and will continue over the next two weeks.'Verizon became the first US carrier to let customers text any other phone by satellite when out of cellular range, starting with Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 phones.0.63Verizon Closes $1 Billion UScellular Spectrum Purchase
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE115 days agoArray's 8-K: "On June 1, 2026, Array Digital Infrastructure, Inc. (f/k/a United States Cellular Corporation) ... completed the previously announced sale of select spectrum assets to Verizon Communications Inc."[1]Verizon completed its $1 billion cash purchase of cellular, AWS and PCS spectrum licenses from Array Digital Infrastructure, the former UScellular, covering about 8 percent of the US population.$1B0.63Verizon Signs AST SpaceMobile Satellite-to-Phone Deal
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE351 days agoBusiness Wire copy on Nasdaq[1]: 'Published Oct 8, 2025 7:30am EDT ... today announced the signing of a definitive commercial agreement with Verizon[3]'.AST SpaceMobile signed a definitive commercial agreement to connect Verizon customers' ordinary phones to its BlueBird satellites across the continental US from 2026, using Verizon's 850 MHz spectrum.0.61AST SpaceMobile Satellite Beta Starts for Verizon
ESTIMATED62% CONFIDENCEin 98 daysAST's Q2 2026 results: 'Continued progress towards beta service in 2026 with initial 3,000 digital cells activated across the Continental United States'; TechTimes[2] quotes AST's beta launch with AT&T and Verizon 'later this year' - a bare year is taken as 31 December.AST SpaceMobile expects to start beta space-based cellular broadband with AT&T and Verizon before the end of 2026, reaching ordinary phones over Verizon's 850 MHz spectrum, though coverage will be intermittent until more satellites fly.0.59Verizon Shine NFL Takeover Drops Free Tickets to Every Game
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE24 days agoVerizon[1][2], 27 August 2026: 'Beginning Monday, August 31, at 1:00 PM ET, Verizon is launching a week-long NFL takeover', with the calendar running to '9/4: Free NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTube'.Verizon turned its Verizon Shine loyalty drops over to the NFL for the week before kickoff, giving away free tickets to every domestic regular-season game, 22 VIP team experiences and NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTube.0.59Verizon Confirms Several Hundred More Job Cuts
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE140 days agoQuartz's report of May 7, 2026 says "Verizon has confirmed a new wave of cuts totaling several hundred jobs"; Zacks dates the confirmation to May 7.[1]Six months after its 13,000-job cut, Verizon confirmed a new round of several hundred layoffs, under 1 percent of its workforce, falling hardest on its Basking Ridge, New Jersey campus.0.58Verizon Launches Simplicity Plan and Loyalty Program
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CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE247 days agoVerizon's[3][4] 8-K: "On January 20, 2026, Verizon Communications Inc. completed the previously announced acquisition of Frontier Communications Parent, Inc."Verizon closed its $20 billion purchase of Frontier Communications, making it a wholly owned subsidiary and extending Verizon's fiber reach to almost 30 million passings across 31 states and DC.0.58Verizon Consumer CEO Sampath Steps Down
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE231 days agoSchulman's memo "Executive Leadership Transition" was published Feb 05, 2026 at 16:00 UTC; the 8-K says Sampath ceased to serve on February 4, 2026.[1]Sowmyanarayan Sampath stepped down as CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, with Chief Transformation Officer Alfonso Villanueva, a former PayPal colleague of Dan Schulman's, taking over on an interim basis.0.58
