verizon logo on phone - Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Updated on Jan. 15 at 1:41 p.m. ET: Verizon confirmed Thursday that its massive outage was caused ...

In mid-January 2026, you may have looked down at your cell phone to check the time or send a text and realized that you had no service. Instead, your display may have read "SOS." If that's the case, ...

If your phone is suddenly displaying "SOS," "no service," or "emergency calls only" and you're on Verizon's network, it's probably not your phone's fault, and you're certainly not alone. More than 100 ...

Verizon said Wednesday night an outage had been resolved after customers across the U.S. reported service outages, with many saying that their devices had been limited to SOS since about noon Eastern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of thousands of Verizon customers across the United States lost phone and data service on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.