Telecom giant Verizon experienced a phone service outage on Wednesday that impacted over 100,000 users in the U.S., with the company working to restore connectivity.

If you see "SOS" or "SOS only" in your iPhone's status bar, your device is not connected to your carrier network, according to Apple. Your phone will attempt to route any emergency calls through other ...

Verizon Wireless is suffering a massive outage in the US, with customers reporting their phones stuck in SOS mode with no cellular service.

When iPhones aren’t connected to a cellular network, they will typically alert the user by giving an indication in the phone’s status bar. Those notifications usually say “No Service” or “Searching,” ...

Verizon extends device unlock period to 365 days for prepaid customers after FCC grants waiver, trapping phones and limiting ...

Is Verizon down right now, and are you seeing SOS on your iPhone or Galaxy? Here's what we know.

Some Verizon customers can’t place outbound calls, though Atlanta Police Department says its 911 system is fully operational.

Verizon Wireless is responding to a major disruption in service, with customers nationwide reporting that they're unable to make phone calls or use the int ...

A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted.

Verizon has started enforcing a 365-day lock period on phones purchased through its TracFone division, one week after the ...

A broad Verizon outage on January 14, 2026, left hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide unable to make calls, send texts, or use mobile data.

Updated Jan. 24 Concerns over an unfair advantage to Verizon and its customers led Chilmark officials to deny a proposed ...