{"id":407222,"date":"2026-01-14T19:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/407222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:33:13","slug":"is-verizon-down-customers-impacted-by-wireless-voice-and-data-services-company-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/407222\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Verizon down? Customers impacted by wireless voice and data services, company says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KGO logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/origin-kgo.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, January 14, 2026 7:12PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC News Live\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Verizon is responding Wednesday to an issue impacting wireless voice and data service for customers across the nation, the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Verizon said the outage began around noon Eastern time. It was not immediately clear how long the service will be down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Our engineers are engaged and are working to identify and solve the issue quickly,&#8221; the company said in a statement. &#8220;We understand how important reliable connectivity is and apologize for the inconvenience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FILE - A Verizon sign is displayed on a store, Sept. 30, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/18402698_Verizon-img.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FILE &#8211; A Verizon sign is displayed on a store, Sept. 30, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Charles Krupa, file<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Many customers said their phones showed &#8220;SOS&#8221; in place of network bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/verizon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Downdector<\/a>, thousands are reporting a service outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, January 14, 2026 7:12PM Verizon is responding Wednesday to an issue impacting wireless voice and data service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195977,4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-407222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-195977","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}