Maybe installing a beam splitter went wrong?
Verizon outages reported across U.S.
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#162I got sniped away from Visible (Verizon MVNO) by US Mobile (multi-carrier MVNO) during a Black Friday sale. USM has an interesting thing where you can actually get a separate eSIM for each of the major carriers, and switch between them. I was curious so I signed up for all 3. It's been interesting to see how the signals vary from location to location, and at least a couple times I've been able to get significantly be…
Unfortunately GV has been having a ~week outage of outgoing MMS group messages. Well, let's say a brownout – many messages make it through to some recipients. https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/THtvkD...
Looks like they fixed it today.
But yeah I probably should have clarified that Google Voice has been a pretty terrible UX and quality overall for years. I really need to just bite the bullet and port my number out.
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#163I still received 23 telemarketing calls today on my Verizon phone in Maryland.
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#164I got sniped away from Visible (Verizon MVNO) by US Mobile (multi-carrier MVNO) during a Black Friday sale. USM has an interesting thing where you can actually get a separate eSIM for each of the major carriers, and switch between them. I was curious so I signed up for all 3. It's been interesting to see how the signals vary from location to location, and at least a couple times I've been able to get significantly be…
I'm considering switching to US Mobile from Verizon-- it seems way cheaper, and you can still use the Verizon network. Any downsides I should know?
One tradeoff with MVNOs is you're generally lower priority on the network.
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#165For those who weren't aware: Verizon got a new CEO late last year and laid off 15% of the workforce (15,000 people). This included people working in network, IT and cyber security.
Is there a substantive connection? Like all the doom and gloom after the Twitter layoffs predicting the site would implode and go permanently offline "within a month" which...never happened. It's also ironic in the sense it implies the indignant people were so bad at their jobs they designed and built a system so fragile it would collapse without constant intervention from thousands of individuals. You do realize it'…
Real-time multi-directional communications over massive geographic areas with tens of thousands of physical cell sites connected to ~140M devices vs... public text messages with media.
I realize your point, but its fair to say maintaining a nationwide physical wireless infrastructure may not be the same as hosting tweets, particularly when outages strike.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a substantive connection? Like all the doom and gloom after the Twitter layoffs predicting the site would implode and go permanently offline "within a month" which...never happened. It's also ironic in the sense it implies the indignant people were so bad at their jobs they designed and built a system so fragile it would collapse without constant intervention from thousands of individuals. You do realize it'…
Verizon is a traditional for-profit telco. Not some VC funded startup trying to hit a burn rate. Very unlikely they were overstaffed by 15k, sounds more like overzealous cost-cutting to hit a quarterly target.
Gotta get those bonuses in the upper levels.
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#167i know alot are joking / sarcastic about its a cyber attack- that said, Wouldn't it make more sense that whenever there is a "cyber attack" its more likely it would only affect one provider? ie, each has to have different systems / security postures ect, such that a non-public vuln useful to attack Verizon would likely not be exploitable/exposed at AT&T (or vise versa)?
why are you saying that this is affecting more than one provider?
i'm not saying that, I was asking more of a general question, others were saying that multiple carriers were having issues (w the only proof being downdetector and their incorrectly scaled Y axis graphs)
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#168I was unable to receive SMS based OTP from my bank yesterday for a couple of hours... Wonder if it's related. Anyone else?
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#169I find this kind of odd. Yesterday, 2026-01-13, I - who lives in the greater Washington D.C. area - experienced A LOT of Verizon disruption. However, today, my service has been excellent. Maybe I'm from the future and don't know it. Did anybody else in my general area experience outages yesterday?
Dallas metro here. I couldn't receive SMS based OTP from a bank for hours yesterday.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wanted to correct you but than I stopped myself because I'm not sure if you meant that sarcastically. Because with a /s at the end your post makes sense.
Nope, not sarcastic. Would love to know where my understanding is incorrect!
DNS servers can take the IP address of the client into account. If you query a record for amazon.com from the USA you will get a different answer than from Europe. (And you don't need anycast for that.)
That the client information doesn't get lost when it goes through different resolvers the DNS extension EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) was invented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS_Client_Subnet
explains it better than me. The whole point of the extension is to make geo-guessing the original client over DNS more stable.
Now you can have privacy conscious DNS servers that strip the ECS information (or mess with it somehow) and instead of the server closest to you you get the global fallback for example. (controld.com goes as far to say "switch countries without a VPN" by only messing with ECS. No idea how stable that is though.)