Cellphone outage hits AT&T customers nationwide; Verizon and T-Mobile users also affected
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Fox Business ^
| 2/22/24 | Pilar Arias , Louis Casiano
Tens of thousands of AT&T customers were left without service for hours on Thursday for their home phone, internet and mobile phone services, according to Downdetector. The outages started popping up just before 3:30 a.m. ET, according to a graph shown on the website that tracks outages. Just
before 2 p.m. ET, the number of reports had declined drastically to nearly 4,900 after spiking at more than 73,000 just after 9 a.m. ET. Most users still impacted, 51%, say they are having issues with mobile phone service. Forty percent of customers currently reporting being affected say they have no signal...
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AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users hit by massive cellular outage in US
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New York Post ^
| 02/22/24 | Melissa Koenig
A major cellphone outage affected users across the US early Thursday — even stopping some police departments from being able to receive 911 calls.AT&T seemed to have experienced the largest number of issues, with nearly 32,000 reports at around 4:30 a.m., according to data from DownDetector, which tracks outages by collating status
reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.More than 800 service outages were also reported on T-Mobile and Verizon, although a spokesperson for the latter put it down to users reporting problems trying to call people with other services.Others reported issues on smaller carriers including Boost Mobile,...
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Verizon FiOS Discrepancy
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09/13/23 | Self
I have a Verizon fios 75/75 internet speed deal but every speed test except Verizon's shows really low times.I can't figure out why the discrepancy between all of the search testers? (All
of them show more or less the same similar slow speeds .. except Verizon!)Looking for ideas. Btw: The tests are all done on my android phone. (Haven't run one on my PC yet.)See results below.RANDOM SITE TESTERVERIZON'S TESTER
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Verizon Blocks access to Sig Sauer website.
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https :// www . sigsauer . com / p365 - prizepack - 2023 ? utm _ campaign = 230616 _ 365XMACRO _ Kryptek _ GunSkins _ Sweeps & u ^
| 6-17-2023 | Self
Verizon blocks cell phone access to the sigsauer@sigsauer.com website with this message: "ForbiddenYou don't have permission to access this resource." I
have no problem accessing the same site from my Desktop using CenturyLink internet access.
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Verizon and 5g
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Self | Self
My family keeps me in a phone and they pay thebill. They
asked me to go to AT&T to get a new sim cardfor my phone because they are letting go of verizon. Apparently, Verizon was charging them for 5g service but only delivering 4g. Ay my house, in the middle of a large city, I was lucky to have 2 bars of service. Now, I have 5 bars AND 5g. If any of you are paying for 5g but aren't receiving it, you might want to take action. That's why I'm posting this.
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Verizon - AOL political censorship
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Wuli | 10/27/2022 | Wuli
I use a third party Email program (Thunderbird) to get my Email (via a POP setup) from Verizon (now hosted by AOL). I noticed some months ago that spam filters it was using were not always reliable. I
began going on line to AOL mail to see what had been placed in the "Trash" folder (Emails I got via Thunderbird) and what it had in a "SPAM" folder. I found Emails assigned as Spam were not and some Emails they sent ot me should have been sent to the Spam folder instead. I made corrections on their Email web page....
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(Vanity) Help - any Verizon Wireless outage problems and contacts?
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Me | 8/5/22 | Me
Is anyone else having outages, due to bad weather, on Verizon Wireless? I wonder if anyone knows a good way to contact these idiots. Idont
fully trust their robocall that tells us 18 hours later the area is still having Verizon outage. I’d like to get real people to talk to.
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OAN facing financial life support as Verizon drops network
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washingtonexaminer.com ^
| July 22, 2022 | Heather Hamilton
Verizon will drop One America News from its channel lineup, leaving the right-wing network without any major television carriers. After
failing to reach a contractual agreement, Verizon announced it would no longer contain the rights to OAN after July. “Our negotiation with OAN has been a typical, business-as-usual carriage negotiation like those that routinely happen between content distributors and content providers. These negotiations were focused on economics, as they always are, but OAN failed to agree to fair terms,” Verizon said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “Our company has long advocated for providing customers with the ability to...
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Biden Administration, Broadband Companies Strike Deal to Benefit Low-Income Americans...AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and others commit to a 100Mbps service for $30 a month as part of the infrastructure law.
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CNet ^
| May 9, 2022 10:18 a.m. PT | Marguerite Reardon
Twenty broadband providers have agreed to partner with the Biden administration to offer lower-cost high-speed internet service for low-income Americans to help address the digital divide, the White House announced Monday. The Affordable Connectivity Program will offer plans for $30 a month that provide download speeds of at least 100 megabits per
second download speeds. Roughly 48 million Americans are expected to qualify for the program, or nearly 40% of households in the country, according to the White House. President Joe Biden talked a lot during his presidential campaign about the necessity of broadband service, especially in light of the...
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AT&T, Verizon reject U.S. request to delay 5G wireless plans
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AP ^
| 02 January 2022 | uncredited AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Verizon and AT&T have rejected a request by the U.S. government to delay the rollout of next-generation wireless technology. A
joint letter Sunday from the telecommunications giants to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Steve Dickson, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, sought to dismiss concerns brought by U.S. airlines that a new 5G wireless service could harm aviation. But Hans Vestberg, CEO of Verizon Communications, and John Stankey, CEO of AT&T, also wrote that they were willing to accept some temporary measures over the next six months to limit the service around certain airport runways....
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AT&T, Verizon CEOs reject U.S. request for 5G deployment delay
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Reuters ^
| January 2, 2022 | David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The chief executives of AT&T and Verizon Communications rejected a request to delay the planned Jan. 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over aviation safety concerns but offered to temporarily adopt new safeguards. U.S.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson had asked AT&T CEO John Stankey and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg late Friday for a commercial deployment delay of no more than two weeks. The wireless companies in a joint letter on Sunday said they would not deploy 5G around airports for six months but rejected any broader limitation...
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‘Being like this isn’t healthy’: TikToker says she called Verizon to check ex’s messages, sparking debate over partner surveillance
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DailyDot.com ^
| 27 December 2021 | Mikael Thalen
TikTok users are sharing ways in which they surveil their romantic partners over concerns of infidelity, raising serious ethical questions about technology and dating in the modern era. A
video posted to the app earlier this month appears to show just how pervasive such surveillance has become, sparking widespread debate on a range of issues such as trust and boundaries. The video, which has been viewed more than 740,000 times, details how TikTok user @thearmanim allegedly attempted to obtain an ex-boyfriend’s cell phone messages by contacting his service provider.... ...Others began sharing techniques that they claimed allowed them to keep...
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Verizon Vaccine Mandate Announced today
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Verizon.com ^
| 8/14/2021 | Craig Silliman
What’s next? Verify your vaccination status. Employees
must verify their vaccine status and submit proof of vaccination. Please note, the deadlines vary for employees: For U.S. employees (non-union) except retail, R2B and VCG home-based: The deadline to be fully vaccinated will be December 8, 2021. You will receive instructions on Monday, October 18, to upload proof of vaccination or apply for a legally recognized religious or medical accommodation. For contractors, vendors, visitors and new hires who enter our U.S. facilities: The deadline to be fully vaccinated will be January 1, 2022. For our retail and R2B teams: The deadline to...
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Verizon, T-Mobile & AT&T Customers Report Outages After Facebook, Instagram Go Down
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B911 ^
| Oct 4, 2021 | T. Grant Benson
Screenshot / DownDetector Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all suffered outages Monday afternoon. The
social networks slowly began coming back online for some users after a 6-hour outage. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook wrote in a brief statement. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.” The cause of the problem was not immediately known.
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Verizon has unveiled THOR, a custom Ford F650 that can deploy a satellite dish, 5G mast, and drones to respond to natural disasters and emergencies
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Business Insider ^
| September 19,2021 | Taylor Rains
Losing communication during a crisis can be detrimental to rescue and recovery efforts, so some phone companies have created innovative technologies to combat communication barriers during disasters. In
2017, AT&T deployed its Flying Cell-On-Wheels, dubbed Flying COWs, which are hovering drones that provide widespread LTE coverage after natural disasters, like hurricanes Maria, Matthew, and Ida. This year, AT&T's competitor Verizon unveiled its newest disaster relief prototype called the Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response vehicle, known simply as THOR. THOR was built to enhance the Verizon Frontline program, which is a unified platform aimed at providing advanced network and communication technology to...
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The rich, mostly White people leading Verizon are oh, so woke
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American Thinker ^
| 28 Aug, 2021 | Andrea Widburg
Once again, we're seeing a major American corporation engage in illegal racism and gross hypocrisy. Christopher
Rufo is back again with news about Verizon, another massive American corporation that is imposing Critical Race Theory's anti-White eugenic theories on its employees. Not only does this violate federal anti-discrimination law in the workplace, but we're also seeing the usual hypocrisy we've come to expect from these organizations. The only Black person on Verizon's executive management team has the very soft job of "Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer." We need to name and shame these companies and demand that every White person in...
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Verizon teaches employees that capitalism is fundamentally racist, that "weaponized White privilege" is a danger to African-Americans, and that employees should support "defunding the police."
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twitter @realchrisrufo ^
| 8.25.2021 | Christopher F. Rufo
Last year, Verizon launched a "Race & Social Justice" initiative and created an extensive race reeducation program based on the core tenets of critical race theory, including "systemic racism," "white privilege," and "intersectionality." To
begin, Verizon diversity trainers instruct employees to deconstruct their intersectional identities, listing their “race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, education, profession, and sexual orientation," then determining their position on the "privilege" hierarchy. Verizon then instructs employees on the firm’s elaborate racial-etiquette system, warning them against committing "microaggressions" and "microinequities." Members of the privileged classes must engage in the "lifelong process" of "accountability with marginalized individuals." In...
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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5 billion
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CNBC ^
| MON, MAY 3 20218:02 AM EDT : UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO | Steve Kovach
KEY POINTS Verizon will sell its media group, which includes brands from AOL and Yahoo, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management. The sale signals that Verizon will focus on its internet-provider businesses as rivals continue to explore media. ======================================== Verizon will sell its media group to private equity firm Apollo Global
Management for $5 billion, the companies announced Monday. The sale allows Verizon to offload properties from the former internet empires of AOL and Yahoo. Verizon will keep a 10% stake in the company and it will be rebranded to just Yahoo. The sale will see online media brands...
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Vanity- Looking for a new phone compatible with Verizon
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Jan 31, 2021
I recently bought a new flip phone that Verizon was offering a good deal on. It’s
an Alcatel Go Flip V. I loved my old LG flip phone but it was not wi-fi compatible so I had to get one that was. The Alcatel is and that’s the single only good thing I have to say about the phone. The phone is flat out awful. It has a terrible selection of ringtones, is difficult to set up, the texting is terrible and you cannot forward texts, the image quality is awful for pictures received (they look like a negative of...
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D.C.'s biggest corporate donors including Amazon, GE, Verizon and Best Buy plunge Republicans into cash crisis by boycotting 'treason caucus' and other firms stop ALL political donations
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UK Daily Mail ^
| January 11 2021 | Reuters
Republicans in Congress faced growing blowback on Monday from businesses that said they would cut off campaign contributions to those who voted last week to challenge President-elect Joe Biden's victory. The
announcements by Amazon.com, General Electric Co, Dow, AT&T, Comcast Corp, Verizon Communications, American Express Co, Airbnb, Best Buy and Mastercard, among others, threaten to throttle fundraising resources for Republicans who will soon be out of power in the White House and both chambers of Congress. AT&T and Comcast, for example, are among the biggest corporate donors in Washington.
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