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Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage (www.techradar.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It seems that the Northeast, specifically New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, is a bit of a hotspot for Verizon's network issues. Still, Boston, Washington DC, Florida, LA, and Phoenix are all on here as well.

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[–] 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

In before it's confirmed to be a DNS issue.

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    • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Wow, 12 hours

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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Verizon has been laying off people like crazy since Q4 of last year... but I'm sure that's just a coincidence and this outage has nothing to do with cost cutting...

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    [–] 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Happy to report that meshtastic is still functioning, despite not being charged a monthly service fee.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What ways do you use meshtastic? Did you setup any friends or family with terminals? It's kinda just like a group text right?

    I've been thinking about setting one up myself but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. Im not sure I could convince anyone to use it even if I gifted them a radio. And I get enough of hams just chatting about their gear on HF...

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I have not done so yet, but I'm going to set up a few of my family members with nodes, but I'm going to get them one of those helltec mesh pocket nodes since it's also a phone backup battery. That way they'll be likely to actually carry it with them.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    This is the way. You get permission to install an infrastructure node on their roof to help build out mesh connectivity. If this house is on a hill, great. If it’s not, that’s fine. It can still help contribute.

    The mesh must grow.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    not always, when I’m out in the middle of nowhere, I also see sos

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    By out in the middle of nowhere, you would have to not be able to connect to any carrier network at all. If you are a Verizon customer and can't get Verizon signal, but you can see an AT&T tower, you will connect to it to make 911 calls, or a T-Mobile tower, if that's the one you can see. It doesn't matter. Every carrier has to carry 911 calls for every other carrier.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Also iphones I think use satellite for SoS capability now if no cell

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I thought this wasn't a legal requirement of US carriers, sharing their towers for emergencies. Maybe it's a state thing.

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    • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Verizon tried to charge me a dollar for an emailed version of some instructions their CSR was flubbing on the phone.

    Glad to see that they seemed to have found their dollar somewhere else.

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    [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Glad that they mention, albeit a ways in, that reports of other carriers being down are because people try to call Verizon-serviced phones and freak out on Downdetector when it doesn’t go through.

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    • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Fuck Verizon fuck I.C.E.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    People, switch to USMOBILE https://www.usmobile.com/

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    It's also a way to track you without you being able to communicate.

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    [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    thanks, ChatGPT

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    BGP. It's always a BGP misconfiguration.

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