Outside of Cincinnati and noticed I had no service around 11am. Started checking around ant it seems it’s pretty widespread.

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    Verizon should prorate the bills of all people who have lost coverage during their screw-up. I just paid my bill today and this pisses me off.

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      Ah yes, a prorated $3 credit at best. Based on a $90 service bill divided by 30 days.

      Most likely they’ll instead give you a coupon for something in a Verizon-owned app you don’t use, if anything.

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        Of course. And if it’s the other way around and a normal person misses a bill by a few days, they’re charged late fees.

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          Haven’t used Verizon personally, but back in the day Sprint gave a 10 day grace period before charging late fees, even if the documentation said differently at times.

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      Of the 6 people I’ve talked to today with Verizon service in my area, 1 person has the SOS/No bars on their phone. The last couple of outages, that was me so I know how they feel

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      Seems like only iPhones are impacted? Totally fine in my area on Android and all of my neighbors have SOS.

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        No issues reported by my circle of Apple folks on Verizon, could be in cascading waves or spotting effects on some users but not others

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      Ya, I went for a walk and had my phone/ear buds in and as soon as I got away from the house it stopped working. Tried toggling airplane mode, and rebooting, no luck. When I got back I had a msg from my wife asking if I’d changed our verizon service.

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        Changed the service? No

        Changing things in life? Yes. On a side note honey, you are off the service plan. Also we are getting a divorce.

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        Weird part is that mine is SOS at home, but my wife’s phone seems fine at work ~20 miles from here. Not sure if it’s because the cell tower(s) there are unaffected or if it is because our phones are different models.

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    I’ve been without service since around noon, I guess this explains why. Hopefully they get it fixed soon.

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    they suck so bad around here the last couple years, it’d be hard to tell if it’s a ‘widespread’ outage or just the local ‘norm’. (ours is working right now, but an hour east of here it’s not).

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    Verizon in the Chicago area here. Been on SOS all day since 9 something this morning. Tried the network reset and it did nothing.

    My wife’s phone on our plan has a bar. We both have iPhone 15 Pros. It’s been about 7 hours now without service. Hopefully it’s fixed by tonight.

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      I’m in the same area and have the same phone. It just came back online about 15 mins ago.

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        Nice! Here’s hoping I am soon, as well! Still showing SOS for me at 4:30pm.

        Edit: got service back around 5pm