Verizon says its service is back
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The carrier says the outage is over and has apologized to customers. Here’s the latest on the issue — with no clear cause yet.
Press and hold the side button and one of the volume buttons (either work) until the Emergency SOS slider appears. Drag the Emergency Call slider to call emergency services. Rapidly pressing the side or top button five times will bring up the Emergency Call slider. Drag the SOS slider to call emergency services.
Over 1.5 million Verizon customers had reported outages, according to Downdetector, but by late Wednesday the company said service had been restored.
The outage, which lasted more than seven hours, left many customers without the ability to make phone calls, send text messages or use data.
If you're low (or completely out) of signal today, keep these pages in mind to stay up to date with the Verizon outage.
Verizon, one of the country’s major cell phone providers, appears to be experiencing big problems on Wednesday.