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Verizon Customers Experience Outage
July 18, 2012
Thousands of Verizon Wireless customers across the area experienced an outage Wednesday.
Many customers reported the inability to make or receive calls or text messages for several hours beginning just after 2 p.m. By 7 p.m., many customers were reporting that their service had returned and was working as normal.
The outage affected customers in Alabama and Florida as well as several other states.
As of Wednesday night, Verizon had offered no official explanation for the outage.
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27 Responses to “Verizon Customers Experience Outage”
Still having issues!
Stll have no news service. Says “NETWORK Error please try again later ” has been saying this for over 24the hours
My phone is still having problems. Texting keeps retrying and calls are getting dropping constantly.
MY phone was fading in and out with calls and finally starting receiving voice message calls and texts late Thursday evening. Several other verizon customers were having the same problems but others that have verison network were only working at half status. And their were others that had full service.
I still cannot use data on phone but husband can. I thought i had done something wrong.
and to clarify, I’m on Verizon.
I’m in Malibu and we had a total cell outage on our property for hours
it just came back on. Very scary had there been an emergency (!)
mine has been fine
This is kinda funny, cause Frontier is the one usually out. Frontier in my opinion is the worst Internet company out there. “lightning fast DSL” excuse me while I laugh. I actually get more use out of my AT&T 3G. I know we are talking about Verizon but AT&T is just as sweet as Verizon. AT&T in my opinion that is the way to go. I will admit in some places Verizon works great but AT&T wouldn’t do a thing.
I have noticed that when you get into the Pineville area there is no service on ATT?
The Molino Fairgrounds is also a dead zone.
I have AT&T and a TRAC phone (backup phone)…both were working all day. Of course when we have strong storms no cell phone works…that is why I keep my landline.
Well …far as I can tell No access on my T-mobile phones & the neighbor said she had no signal on her At&T cel. …Started around 4:00pm it is now 11:22 at night…tryed chatting online via the home computer…a lot of Rig-a-ma-roar to not really fix a thing…the girl on the chat would not fess up to there being a greater problem…I told her in closing to tell the engineers!
at&t is working just fine. also my good ol landline works great.
Weird I had problems with my Verizon phone around 2 for about 20 minutes but it has been fine since then. I didn’t know there was a problem till came to northescambia.com
Not all verizon customers are having a problem.
William, Thanks for keeping us updated. I was wondering if I had touched something in my new phone to make it not work. I use StraightTalk and it also use the Verizon Phone network.
I understand problems will happen but for those of us to rely on our phones for business it would be nice if they heard something announcing the problem is with verizon
whatever the problem is,its affecting straighttalk’s network as well;no talk, no text,no data
Spoke with verizon reps…no estimated time til back up. Impacting as far as Houston to Panama City. Been down since 2pm.
They said it should be fixed around 7pm
I’m hearing people on other carriers saying their phones are not working properly either! Hmm..No date on our Verizon,phone calls go through here and there. Solar flare?
Still cannot access email as of this note and having to use roaming feature to make any phone calls. This has affected me since around 1:30 or 2:00 today from Niceville to Freeport to Miramar Beach (where I am now).
I would certainly hope Verizon will provide some type of compensation for this significant of an outage. Unfortunately, I rely on my cell phone for my business and so does my husband…
My wife called, or tried to, to advise me she was held up in Ft. Walton. Well not really “held up”…just detained. She had to use her OnStar system. Thank goodness for back-up systems.
Verizon Wireless voice stopped around 4:30 in Fort Walton Beach, data intermittent, voice just restarted at 5:30
can’t even call 911. this is getting nasty in FL.
Verizon Wireless down here in Destin/Maramar Beach since about 2pm CT. No data, but can occasionally make a phone call.
my i-phone is a paperweight right now!! hope they get it fixed soon……