#outage

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!

First impression, layoffs. Second impression, major outage. FAFO is all I'm going to say.

Massive outage likely resulted from layoffs. Same thing happened with AT&T.

External vendor (they went el cheapo, didn't vet properly, didn't communicate risks, etc..).
Software bug not under their control (they didn't perform a proper FOA).
Hardware failure (what, you mean AI didn't predict it, and could not reroute/resolve it quickly?).
Sabotage (blame it on disgruntled employee).
Other - get creative here :).

We all know VZ leadership will not accept responsibility.

Leaders went around in all-hands saying “things will break” … ok, so the network down is ok? Of course no head will roll in leadership - but way to start off the year with net adds growth is in our performance agreements.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/business/verizon-customers-nationwide-left-unable-to-text-and-call-after-massive-network-outage/

Tried contacting customer service via chat. Receiving "cannot process your request" is the response I get to every question I asked, including "I want to increase my plan". Setting the foundation!

What a day. Verizon continues to chase “leaner operations,” yet today’s massive outage tells a different story. When cost-cutting overrides sound engineering and accountability, reliability inevitably suffers.

This will almost certainly drive additional churn. A culture where network decisions are influenced by politics and optics—rather than technical rigor—has consequences, and customers ultimately pay the price.

The long-held perception of Verizon as a “premium” network deserves closer scrutiny. Today’s outage, combined with the recent workforce reductions, exposes a growing gap between branding and reality. Reliability isn’t a marketing slogan—it’s the result of disciplined investment, empowered engineering teams, and accountable leadership.

If this trajectory continues, the market will reach its own conclusion.

Never in my life have experience this. Nationwide outage. Most cels on SOS. Customer service on the phone = useless. The stores are floded w customers concerned. Store employees know nothing.

LMAO. I logged into my account and tried to connect to chat for support. Its completely down. Customers phones dont work and customer service is not available. SET THE FOUNDATION!!!!

Nope.

As part of Verizon’s commitment to delight customers, we’ve implemented a digital detox starting this morning so our customers can get off to a good start in the new year!

I’m confused. According to our leaders, we have the best network. Currently experiencing nationwide outage. Great job! Customers who left will surely come running back!

Setting the foundation!!! Let’s go V Teamers!

Go figureee! After the massive layoffs we can now see the affects! Haaaaha

So this is just classic. They laid a ton of people off and the system that we are all supposed to log into to review our severance and search for jobs isn’t working. I personally know over 35 people that aren’t able to login. We all just keep getting told we’re working on your ticket. This is great, get fired on Tuesday. Told the next steps to look for a job and view your details about your severance is to login and it’s still working and nobody can answer any questions. Class act.

Thanks to ESRO, all Optum tech teams have to adopt a CloudFlare firewall as the entry point to their applications. As such, this company has now become a single point of failure for all of Optum. If they are down, not only is our website down, but all internal and provider facing applications.

Guess which company went down again today for the second time in the past few weeks?

But of course, im "not a team player" and not "aligned with strategic direction" for raising concerns about vendor lock in and huge increases in systemic risk to the company.

As long as you offshore development and onshore cheap labor you are going to continue to have outages.

If everything crashes again on Thursday, I swear my heart is going to give out from the stress, because with the total lack of real communication from leadership, this place is the only spot where I can even try to figure out what’s going on. I’m begging the universe not to let this fall apart on D-day, because losing this one source of updates would push the anxiety into a whole different level.

A 15-hour (!) outage wiping out $1.1B, because spreadsheet pushers and senior management became dominated by folks that knew almost nothing about how AWS worked. Classy! Keep those layoffs coming!

To read anything, I have to hit the stop button before the page finishes its task. It's turned to absolute garbage.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/ibm_cloud_experiencing_quantum_computer/

Remember what CEO AK said, quantum is the next "AI"... whatever that means!

I swear to whoever the creator is these execs are d-mb as he-l. Buying cheap platforms for a big a-s org like UHC and the companies it’s bought out plus offshoring to overseas third world countries results in so many tech issues and SD and upper management want to act surprised systems are down.

good luck accessing anything this month..

Any team that is in Azure is reporting 100% impact. All regions. Azure support helpless on the call. During peak season!

Man, sure am glad we decommissioned Chaska and Elk River and mandated the company go 100x to the cloud!!! What could go wrong?

What a disaster.

Did anyone else lose access to Slack tonight? I was logged out and can’t log back in

Like crowdstrike outage last year, similar issues with Amazon AWS.

Poor programmers in India

VPN went out awhile back — word is Charlotte teammates working from home and the “permanent” telecommuters decided to come into the office with their kids in tow (because who needs childcare when you’ve got badge access, right?).

Naturally, it turned into a full-blown security circus

Big thanks to leadership for taking the lesson to heart and rewarding us with a 5-day-a-week RTO in January. Appreciate y’all alpaca-ing us back to the office.

About 10 years ago we launched 2 new data centers. When JF took over as a CEO, I heard someone in IT saying JF wants everything to go to external cloud.

In light of today’s AWS outage, what do IT people think of JF’s view and the danger of external cloud service?

Are we still using the 2 data centers?

I'm kind of thinking it happens soon. Oracle is laid off so many talented smart people, they've terrified the remaining people with talk about how AI is going to replace them or they're going to get laid off, and they're driving away any kind of decent talent from ever applying...

it turns out being a greedy psychopath a--hole id--t is really expensive

Comcast has a cyber attack today. All 6 petabytes of minio data was deleted. People are checking if it was retaliation for the divisions layoffs.

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and remote start is dead for all cars which have it.

who needs redundant systems?

Along with Microsoft, Delta and others who rely on Bezos the Bozo for connectivity, T-Mobile is suffering with this AWS outage. There's quite a number of services in industry and government that rely on this backbone.

So glad T-Mobile outsourced a bunch of its connectivity. They can just point at Bozos.

I know Ford went to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) a few years back, but I'm sure there is some AWS usage still around.

“We can confirm significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region as well."

No failover? Come on.

The following AWS services have been affected by this issue:

AWS Global Accelerator
AWS VPCE PrivateLink
AWS Security Token Service
AWS Step Functions
AWS Systems Manager
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler
Amazon GameLift Servers
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon SageMaker
Amazon VPC Lattice

Principal is having a major outage with no ETA for when you will be able to access your retirement fund.

Yesterday’s disruption was caused by multiple failures of the TDMI data telecommunications service provided by Frontier — a local telecommunications company,” the FAA said in a statement to The Dallas Morning News.

Travel chaos as FAA orders ground stops for two Dallas airports over phone issue:

Dallas’ two major airports were thrown into chaos Friday afternoon when the Federal Aviation Administration issued ground stop orders after controllers “lost all radar and phone communications,” according to officials and reports.

Dallas Love Field and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport were both under a ground stop and a ground delay for several hours after communications equipment malfunctions popped up just after 4 p.m. local time, according to the FAA.

Love Field experienced on-and-off ground stops which were finally lifted for good just prior to DFW getting the all-clear later Friday night, FAA data showed.

“The FAA is slowing flights at Dallas Love Field and Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport due to a reported local telephone company equipment issue that does not involve FAA equipment,” the flight safety agency said.

AT&T is the primary telephone and telecommunications company providing service to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), including its complimentary Wi-Fi. The partnership between DFW Airport and AT&T involves providing a comprehensive wireless platform (CWP) to enhance connectivity and critical infrastructure for the airport.

By Shane Galvin
Published Sep. 19, 2025
Updated Sep. 19, 2025, 10:46 p.m. ET

https://nypost.com/2025/09/19/us-news/ground-stops-at-two-dallas-airports-due-to-telephone-issue/

Almost an hour now but no indication sending us home lol

I can't log into online access to see my accounts via the app not the website. I expected things to break but I figured it would be internal processes and products...not a client facing outage with no communication. Does anyone have more info on when this will be fixed?