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Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls

Lily Hay Newman

created: Jan. 14, 2026, 6:54 p.m. | updated: Jan. 17, 2026, 10:37 a.m.

AT&T and T-Mobile customers also began reporting service outages in the same timeframe, however these reports may be linked to the Verizon outage. The outage tracking site DownDetector showed spikes in reports of service disruptions for all three primary US mobile carriers. “It is unlikely a coordinated attack against the Verizon network,” he told WIRED. At roughly 10:20 pm ET, Verizon said that the outage was resolved. Update 1/14/26 11:27 pm ET: This story has been updated to reflect that the Verizon outage was resolved Wednesday evening.

2 weeks, 5 days ago: WIRED