Is Verizon down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached verizon.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 3d 13h.
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Incident history
LAST 90 DAYSAbout Verizon outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Verizon covers mobile service, Fios home internet and a substantial enterprise network, and the failure people notice most is the mobile one - a phone that shows signal, or shows SOS only, but will not place a call or move data. Carrier outages have a recovery pattern worth understanding: service often returns unevenly, region by region and sometimes handset by handset as devices re-register with the network, which is why "is Verizon still down" is such a common follow-up search hours into an incident. Because the affected customers frequently cannot use their own connection to check, and because the impact is usually regional rather than national, an outside view from many locations at once is the fastest way to establish both whether the problem is real and whether it is yours.
Common causes of Verizon downtime
Core-network and software-update failures that interrupt voice and data registration over large regions simultaneously
Regional infrastructure damage - fibre cuts, power loss at aggregation sites, severe weather - affecting a defined geography
Handset registration problems that leave phones stuck in SOS-only mode even after the underlying network incident has been resolved
Fios and home-internet faults, which are separate from the mobile network and can fail independently in either direction
Not sure whether it's Verizon or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests verizon.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Verizon being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
No - as of the most recent check, verizon.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 3d 13h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, verizon.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 3d 13h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, verizon.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 3d 13h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
SOS-only means the handset cannot register with your carrier's network but can still see other networks for emergency calls. During a genuine outage that is exactly what large numbers of phones show at once, so if people around you on Verizon see the same thing, it is the network. If your phone is the only one affected, the more likely causes are a SIM or eSIM registration problem, an account issue or a software state that a restart clears. Either way the phone cannot tell you which it is - use Wi-Fi or another device to run the check on this page and see whether Verizon's services are reachable from the outside.
Recovery from a carrier incident is rarely instantaneous for every device. Once the network side is restored, handsets have to re-register, and a large population of devices attempting that at the same moment takes time to work through; some phones also stay latched to a failed state until they are nudged. Toggling airplane mode on and off, or restarting the phone, forces a fresh registration and resolves a large share of the "still down after the fix" cases. If service is genuinely still missing after that, and others nearby are working normally, the remaining problem is specific to your line or device rather than the outage itself.
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