#network

I can't tell you how many hours are lost every day because of faulty network or connection issues. I won't report them anymore because they go into a bottomless pit.
I just sit and stew about it. and if I'm doing that and everyone else is doing the same, think of the thousands of hours down the drain .
Such a waste. But then again, what do you expect from S running the group.

This could give Vz a huge leg up in PA.
AI/data center gets built ...needs connectivity ... Verizon sells connectivity ... Verizon has to build/maintain the network ...employees do the work.

For Verizon, potential work includes:

Fiber construction — new fiber routes into data centers.
Dark-fiber connections — lighting existing unused fiber or leasing strands.
Optical transport — installing/maintaining DWDM, ROADM and high-capacity equipment.
Central-office work — installing racks, shelves, power equipment, fiber panels and transport equipment.
Circuit provisioning — turning up high-capacity connections.
Testing — OTDR testing, fiber certification and optical testing.
Maintenance — troubleshooting fiber, optics, power and transmission equipment.
Network upgrades — increasing capacity as data-center traffic grows.
Data-center interconnects — connecting one data center to another over Verizon's network.
Enterprise services — businesses located at or around those facilities need dedicated connectivity.
Verizon has a lot of existing dark fiber in Pennsylvania, that's potentially a huge advantage. Verizon also has existing facilities .

If Verizon actually rebadges this group, that would be a wild decision 😂

How are you going to hand the keys to your network over to a vendor and expect that to end well?

Dan or any Verizon executives lurking in here might want to take a few notes from what happened to Sprint when Ericsson was running their network. We all saw how that story played out. 😂

But hey… I’m sure outsourcing the people who actually know and maintain the network will really help with that whole “delighting the customer” thing. 🤡📶

Why so many executives and team members from Network moved under Vivek?
What’s the end goal ? There is Network SVP reporting to Vivek. They used to be peers.

"Verizon customers across Southern California faced widespread service outages Sunday after vandals targeted and cut multiple fiber lines, leaving residents and emergency networks disconnected across the region."

https://nypost.com/2026/08/09/us-news/criminal-cause-of-mass-verizon-outage-across-socal-revealed/

https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/

See the rise in the graph starting about 5:30 AM and rising to steady state about 1:30 PM. Not as large as yesterday (approaching 800 reports, so we know it is much larger than that). From the comments at the bottom of the page the areas affected appear to be in CA and CO.

Hmmm. I wonder if this could have been predicted.......

Verizon experienced a nationwide outage this afternoon is anyone facing real calling issues

To those that understand, please help me understand the spectrum auctions from June.

Verizon Communications: Won 82 licenses for $3.16 billion
T-Mobile: Won 102 licenses for $277.8 million
AT&T: Won 10 licenses for $120.8 million
SpaceX: Won licenses for $8.5 million

If we have to trim $5 billion from the operational budget by the end of 2026 through layoffs, offshoring, AI, etc, what is the purpose of spending $3 billion on 82 licenses when everyone else spent less than a fraction of that?

Did we get better spectrum? Were the others bidding just a few dollars behind us or could we have gotten them for 300 or 400 million?

With everything else is being trimmed down to bare bones, was an investment like this solely to make the company more valuable to a potential buyer because we would have something they would need if they wanted to build out or expand a mobile network?

Make John Saw responsible for both Core Network and IT and it fails. Typical. Most overrated person in the mobile space ever.

Anyone on the 5G Home ready team affected? BDM's, AD's, Directors? This program has been going with no actual traction. Sooo many delays with roll out and build outs its insane.

Heard today Network is going to be one of the hardest hit this month.

SP Teams, NA teams, RF teams brace yourself

Starlink has a contentious relationship with their D2D launch partner T-Mobile. This explains a lot of the rumors about them acquiring a terrestrial network.

https://tmfassociates.com/blog/2026/06/26/fever-pitch/

I assume we can thank the brilliance of the reorg for the absolutely abysmal network performance?

The post below the line of === recently appeared on a Telstra executive's LinkedIn account. It was also covered by the Australian Financial Review in an article by Media, marketing and telecommunications reporter Sam Buckingham Jones.

As a former Telstra Principal Technical Officer with 4 decades of experience in the network maintenance and implementation field, I find this 'restart' approach extremely disturbing. It fixes nothing and may have the potential to interrupt traffic to triple-zero 'emergency' calls. (That is - calls to police, fire & ambulance).

Such interruptions have previously been linked to the death of people.

How many times will Telstra merely restart equipment before actually fixing the real fault ?

If equipment requires repeated restart to clear faults, then the network owner should really be placing more scrutiny on their vendors and demanding a real fix.

Network operators should focus on quality of service, rather than just 'clearing' equipment alarms to improve KPIs. Network alarms are raised for a reason. - To notify of problems.

Fix the faults. - Don't just clear alarms to improve your statistics.

“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
Turns out, our network already has🤖🔁🔧

Telstra's SmartFix 🤖 is one of those AI capabilities that’s quietly been working in the background for years to make things better for our customers.

SmartFix uses smart telemetry from across the network 📡 to spot common issues early and, where it can, fix them automatically - sometimes by restarting equipment before a customer even realises there’s a problem.
✅ Fewer faults
⚡ Faster fixes
🙂 Less friction

This is AI doing real work, not demos or hype. And it’s a great example of our Network as a Product strategy in action - using data, software and automation to make the network itself smarter, more adaptive and more valuable 🔧📈.

We’ve been applying AI like this for a long time, embedded deep in how the network operates, with a simple goal:
👉 more reliable connectivity
👉 better experiences
👉 every day

Much of management has proven they are clueless, sociopathic and pretty much stupid when it comes to real analysis of what will and will not work when it comes to the network. And for those few that know better, they are spineless and will not speak up to stop the insanity. It would not surprise me for there to be mass layoffs if/when a handful of Elon's satellites get deployed and VZ jumps the g-n firing people with the thinking they will move customers to the satellite system. The facts are that the satellite systems will help the rural areas, and probably have some [more] governmental applications (more spying on our citizens), but high traffic areas will still need ground based cell sites. See the question asked on Google, and the response (bottom line - the pipe is not big enough to serve lots of people at the same time, and too many satellites would be needed to make it work).

Here is the question posted on Google (if you want to ask variations yourself):
How many simultaneous users can be served with 5 mbps download speeds on a single satellite (all beams) using the latest satellite and mobile technology and 100Mhz of bandwidth?

And here is the answer (NOTE the last section):

AI Overview
With 100 MHz} of bandwidth of bandwidth, a single satellite system with the latest 5G and mobile technology can serve between 4,000 and 12,000 active, simultaneous users (depending on the use of spatial beam multiplexing) at a guaranteed 5 Mbps download speed.
The Breakdown
To calculate how many simultaneous connections can be maintained, we must look at the mathematical throughput and spatial reuse of modern Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN).
Spectral Efficiency: The latest 5G New Radio (NR) standards have a high spectral efficiency, delivering roughly (3) to (6\text{ bits}) per second per Hertz.
Total Per-Beam Throughput: For a (100\text{ MHz}) channel (the maximum standard carrier component), a single spot beam yields a peak capacity between (300\text{ Mbps}) and (600\text{ Mbps}).
Active User Allocation: If every user is actively streaming or downloading at exactly (5\text{ Mbps}) without sharing, a single beam can support (60) to (120) continuous, simultaneous users ((300\text{ Mbps} \div 5\text{ Mbps} = 60) users).

Scaling to the Whole Satellite:
Satellites multiply their capacity by reusing the same (100\text{ MHz}) bandwidth across tens or hundreds of spot beams directed at different geographic areas simultaneously (frequency reuse). If a high-throughput Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite utilizes 100 simultaneous beams, it can support between (6,000) and (12,000) simultaneous active users across the globe.

Chime in below. Also, I would not be surprised if someone was to set up a prediction market on Kalshi or PolyMarket for things like this. But then, HR or Management would have an upper hand and would always win (just like they do in the real life but that's a separate topic). So, this thread is my prediction market.

I know exactly what is going on with Cisco? I follow networking companies earnings report and Gartner report. I know exactly where Cisco and other networking companies stand in each networking technology.

Greed is everywhere at top level and hiring is broken with favoring friends and family members in most of the groups.

Many know how to play the corporate game! 60-70% of Directors, managers and VPs do not know how to motivate team and no good vision in their tech domain. There are 20-30% good managers, rest are useless !!

I left the group of old networking technology in my group at Cisco and nepotism. Got a better opportunity to learn a different technology and better pay. I don't have to deal with the incompetent Indian manager any more from my group at Cisco.

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Can someone give me some idea or insight to how few years ago my service was pretty good in most areas .Now my service it terrible and spotty all over the place .Some areas I used to have no issue now have no or slow service.I mean it’s all over the place all over the country.Is this have anything to do with which unlimited plan I have or is it just our network has taken a total dump.This is no joke a serious question please

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/fcc-approves-order-to-accelerate-high-speed-network-rollouts

Rumor is that with Optum Real getting phased out, the work is going back to UHC for the super connectors project. Any truth to how stable the team will be long term as it grows?

I do not see any big changes in the Network org. Most cuts are happening on the consumer and business side.
Our network is getting worse and worse.. Network org remains As-Is ..
Is there any changes in that area ?

America’s Best Network keeps getting better
For the first time ever, ranked #1 for network quality by J.D. Power
#1 for Network Quality – J.D. Power 2026 Vol. 1, Best Mobile Network in the U.S. according to Ookla® Speedtest®.

“Vistance Networks” = Wi-Fi that arrives “within… vistance.”

“Aurora Networks” = your internet goes out, but it’s beautiful while it happens.

Is the DEG group (In CNIO/Network Operations under SVP-Corey Anthony) moving to AFO (Under SVP-Chris Altomari) soon??? Overheard some chatter about that being a reality come 2/1/2026.

Any update on network team this week ?

They said - things are going to break - thats okay - dump 15k employees. Perfect example of how to destroyed a great company. I remember back in 2001 - how Verizon was such a great name

I ported all our lines to Xfinity mobile because it’s cheaper. They use Verizon’s RAN (cell sites and backhaul) but they have their own core. We weren’t impacted by the outage.

Verizon implements a network freeze around the holidays. My educated guess is that they started implementing changes in the core network once the freeze was lifted and something went wrong. Not a good way to start the year!

BAD T1 WIRE WRAP aka SHINER. ENTIRE NETWORK DOWN. KEVIN WILL FIXIT!

https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/att-hunt-more-345-ghz-spectrum

Quit your whining! Late 1st, 2nd quarter 2026 VZ will be hiring back employees layed off through the various contract firms. CEO clearing the books…..not the network! Mark my words! They know good employees will come back running for higher paid jobs without benefits. Mark my words.

Keep this in mind while reading the below: A new build costs ~$500,000 (under/over deploying equipment costs even more). It pays to get the best performance up front. Mod projects cost less, but rework adds up fast. Don't forget about rent at the site locations, too (landlord/tower vendor).

Seeing the number of layoffs of the cell site designers, VZ's higher up managers evidently never learned the lessons from riding in POS cars from American car companies in the 1970's and 80's. During that time Toyota put in the work up front to provide quality cars. Now Toyota is eating the other car makers' lunches. Maybe the higher ups grew up getting new cars every few years, so they never experienced constantly breaking down in American cars and not being able to afford better.

Customer service on the front end was put on the backburner. Now, network design will take a backseat, too. Poorly performing areas will continue to perform poorly.

Let's ignore a lesson of the auto industry (long term quality does matter). All cars are essentially the same, so no stopping of the production line, and the design just has to be good'nuff, it is ok to have acres and acres of new cars needing rework before going to the dealers. Following that model, it is ok if we waste design money, need lots of rework, and delay needed capacity and coverage solutions due to all of the coming rework and poor location choices.

VZ is going the way of Chrysler - All in the name of giving more money to less people, regardless of the fact there is plenty for all.

A large number of director+ in Network Technology let go today.

Dan mentioned that we can't rely on our network superiority anymore. No need to worry about that Verizon is the new Sprint. Major impacts to engineering teams. There won’t be a good network to rely on anyway. I am already setting the degradation happening.