{"id":1493067,"date":"2024-09-30T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1493067"},"modified":"2024-09-30T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T19:30:24","slug":"stuck-in-sos-mode-verizon-cell-users-reportedly-hit-by-widespread-us-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/stuck-in-sos-mode-verizon-cell-users-reportedly-hit-by-widespread-us-outage\/1493067\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Stuck In SOS Mode’:\u00a0Verizon Cell Users Reportedly Hit By Widespread US Outage\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Stuck In SOS Mode’:\u00a0Verizon Cell Users Reportedly Hit By Widespread US Outage\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Verizon outage reports are surging on Downdetector<\/a>, with issues being reported nationwide. Additionally,\u00a0X users complain that their smartphones using\u00a0the mobile carrier are stuck on ‘SOS’ mode.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Verizon is experiencing a massive outage, according to subscribers across the United States. Several of us here at 9to5Mac are also affected by the outage and are unable to an access any sort of cellular connectivity. This includes cellular data, phone calls, and text messages. –9to5Mac<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Data from Downdetector shows that the first Verizon cell outage report emerged around\u00a00945 ET.\u00a0By 1115 ET, nearly 100,000 reports of outages across various large metro areas in the US had been received.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0heat map shows where user-submitted outages occurred, with clusters across major cities in the Northeast and Mid-Alantic and other areas in the Southeast (maybe storm-related) and Midwest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Several other mobile phone carriers, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and US Cellular, have had a surge in users on\u00a0Downdetector report network problems this morning.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what X users are saying:<\/p>\n

do any of y\u2019all have verizon and y\u2019all don\u2019t have service? my phone has been on \u201cSOS\u201d for a half hour pic.twitter.com\/PQBhxl01s6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 DK (@7daijak) September 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

I am here in Aurora Colorado and my @Verizon<\/a> service is now down. Is this one of the October surprises? People across the country are without cell phone service. #Verizon<\/a> #SOS<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qQoyJ7d4yh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Oreo Express (@OreoExpress) September 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

.@Verizon<\/a> what is going on with service?? \u201cSOS only\u201d. Please advise! pic.twitter.com\/kED4h7DDSp<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Carolina Antipolo\u26bd\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f (@CaritoSports) September 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

My Verizon service is completely down\u2014no phone calls, texts, or internet. It\u2019s stuck in SOS mode.<\/p>\n

I had to use WiFi just to get back online, and it seems like a lot of users are facing the same issue. pic.twitter.com\/fknO8o57xK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bobby Ellison (@BobbyEllisonKY) September 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

@Verizon<\/a> WUT DOING SOS MODE pic.twitter.com\/L3zm3q36O0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mr. Green \ud83d\udc8e\ud83c\udf49 (@mikedthe1) September 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

*Developing…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 09\/30\/2024 – 11:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘Stuck In SOS Mode’:\u00a0Verizon Cell Users Reportedly Hit By Widespread US Outage\u00a0\u00a0 Verizon outage reports are surging on Downdetector, with issues being reported nationwide. Additionally,\u00a0X…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1493068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}