WRXL702 Posted September 30 Report Share Posted September 30 Massive Verizon Cell Outage Occurring. Affecting Links To Some TV Stations. See DownDetector: https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoG Posted September 30 Report Share Posted September 30 Never felt the effects in CT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRXL702 Posted September 30 Author Report Share Posted September 30 Still Ongoing In Northern IN & Southern Lower MI. Map Showing Areas Across Entire US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lscott Posted September 30 Report Share Posted September 30 And remember when people laugh at you when you mention having a two-way radio for emergency communication when cell phones are so much more convenient. marcspaz, TrikeRadio and Raybestos 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBRPong Posted September 30 Report Share Posted September 30 Thanks for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRXL702 Posted September 30 Author Report Share Posted September 30 Just A Note To All: If You Have An iPhone, According To Apple - And Your Phone Shows "SOS" For Signal Strength, You Can Still Make "911" Calls As Your iPhone Will Switch To An Active Cell Provider. Hoppyjr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoG Posted September 30 Report Share Posted September 30 15 minutes ago, Lscott said: And remember when people laugh at you when you mention having a two-way radio for emergency communication when cell phones are so much more convenient. Had a guy up in Mass ask over the 575 if anyone else was having issues with cell service. I told him Verizon was having a large outage and he said he was on Cricket. But I reminded him that good thing he had a radio so he could ask about the outage and not get a real answer out of me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoG Posted September 30 Report Share Posted September 30 2 minutes ago, WRXL702 said: Just A Note To All: If You Have An iPhone, According To Apple - And Your Phone Shows "SOS" For Signal Strength, You Can Still Make "911" Calls As Your iPhone Will Switch To An Active Cell Provider. That goes for all phones. 911 will always work if there is any cell service in the area. WRZF838 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRXL702 Posted September 30 Author Report Share Posted September 30 10-4 Good To Know..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRHS218 Posted September 30 Report Share Posted September 30 Verizon out in my area. The wife just went into town. We are using GMRS to stay in contact. WRUU653, Raybestos, Lscott and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRXL702 Posted September 30 Author Report Share Posted September 30 Good To Know & Great To Hear, That GMRS Repeater Stations Are Keeping Folks In Connection With Their Families, In Case Of Situations Or Emergencies, With Verizon Cell Comms Down. That's What This Is Supposed To Be All About - Comms When Convenient Every Day Cell Comms Go Down. I'm A Little Old School, But This Is Exactly Why My Osceola IN 600 & Niles MI 725 (Never Linked) Repeaters With A Large 85% Overlapping Coverage Area Work When It Counts.......... GreggInFL and Lscott 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcp2525 Posted September 30 Report Share Posted September 30 55 minutes ago, Lscott said: And remember when people laugh at you when you mention having a two-way radio for emergency communication when cell phones are so much more convenient. Yep, and these are the same people bitching about not being able to contact their loved ones on 9/11. As for Verizon, I'm not surprised as I was a customer since their inception back in 2000 and I left their wireless in the dust because of poor service. It wasn't their stupidly high prices that drove me away, it was they got so unreliable as I was not getting calls or texts days on end. I went to Consumer Cellular and haven't looked back. And don't get me started on their customer support. Getting a human in under 15 minutes is like climbing the Swiss Alps, a real f'n challenge. And once you get one, you have to hope they comprehend English. Oh, and I still have FiOS, which they have yet to screw up. Raybestos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoppyjr Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 Disregard - the dreaded Tapatalk iPhone emoji bomb strikes again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoppyjr Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 If you have the latest iPhone and latest OS you can also text via satellite. My ex wife and I did today. Works great. tcp2525 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nokones Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 14 hours ago, tcp2525 said: Yep, and these are the same people bitching about not being able to contact their loved ones on 9/11. As for Verizon, I'm not surprised as I was a customer since their inception back in 2000 and I left their wireless in the dust because of poor service. It wasn't their stupidly high prices that drove me away, it was they got so unreliable as I was not getting calls or texts days on end. I went to Consumer Cellular and haven't looked back. And don't get me started on their customer support. Getting a human in under 15 minutes is like climbing the Swiss Alps, a real f'n challenge. And once you get one, you have to hope they comprehend English. Oh, and I still have FiOS, which they have yet to screw up. It was my understanding that Consumer Cellular was/is leasing services from Verizon. Is that still the case and if so, from the system uptime reliability perspective, what have you accomplished, except for maybe a lower rate and a lower priority in the pecking order on use of the system when the system gets overloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoG Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 That's how all of the low cost cell providers work. My brother was using one of these systems and it rarely shows. But during holidays and such it's dramatic. People sending pictures to their loved ones and having a good time. He sends pictures and they show up hours later, not seconds or minutes. I don't think he ever lost the ability to talk but his data moving portion took a huge hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveShannon Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 I’m on Spectrum, which advertises wide availability because they use the Verizon network. When I learned of the Verizon outage yesterday I fully expected to not be able to make voice calls. My friends with Verizon had no service, but I was able to speak to my friends in town on Spectrum. I don’t know if local calls are handled fully within Spectrum before being transferred to Verizon for interstate calls. In any case I had no service interruptions on my cell phone. Later in the day however I had really bad service using Teams on the Internet (also Spectrum) with frequent reconnections. After about half an hour it settled down and worked reliably but during that half hour I was cursing. RayDiddio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcp2525 Posted October 1 Report Share Posted October 1 1 hour ago, nokones said: It was my understanding that Consumer Cellular was/is leasing services from Verizon. Is that still the case and if so, from the system uptime reliability perspective, what have you accomplished, except for maybe a lower rate and a lower priority in the pecking order on use of the system when the system gets overloaded. They use AT&T. I have to say my cell service has been awesome and reliable. No missed calls or texts. Plus, I can make calls without delay or multiple attempts. And no, it wasn't my phone and Verizon couldn't fix the problem. Of course, Consumer Cellular might put us lower in the pecking order, but I don't see that happening too often. Better service at a lower price is a win-win for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotARubiksCube Posted October 2 Report Share Posted October 2 On 10/1/2024 at 6:23 AM, tcp2525 said: They use AT&T. I have to say my cell service has been awesome and reliable. No missed calls or texts. Plus, I can make calls without delay or multiple attempts. And no, it wasn't my phone and Verizon couldn't fix the problem. Of course, Consumer Cellular might put us lower in the pecking order, but I don't see that happening too often. Better service at a lower price is a win-win for me. Ditto--I love using AT&T's network without dealing with AT&T. Just FYI though, Pure Talk uses the same type of arrangement but is a few bucks less per line. PureTalk's $20 plan is 3GB instead of 1GB, and their 10 GB is $30 instead of $35. I've used them for about a year and appreciated their cheerful inside-the-USA phone support (which I needed only once as part of the sign-up process). https://puretalk.com/r/5fdcbc44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcp2525 Posted October 2 Report Share Posted October 2 2 hours ago, NotARubiksCube said: Ditto--I love using AT&T's network without dealing with AT&T. Just FYI though, Pure Talk uses the same type of arrangement but is a few bucks less per line. PureTalk's $20 plan is 3GB instead of 1GB, and their 10 GB is $30 instead of $35. I've used them for about a year and appreciated their cheerful inside-the-USA phone support (which I needed only once as part of the sign-up process). https://puretalk.com/r/5fdcbc44 Agree that dealing with these big companies can be a real abstract feces show in the highest order. I'm really happy with Consumer Cellular's drive to give great customer service. When I first went with them I called for customer assistance and was literally talking to a human being in under three minutes, whom spoke marvelous English without an Indian accent. Best part they comprehended exactly what they were actually saying and had a high degree of knowledge. I said to myself, this can't be real. Compare that to Verizon's customer service, it sucks having to go through a computer generated gauntlet to even be considered for a conversation with a human. I love FiOS, had it for twenty years, but their corporate BS is intolerable. Wouldn't it be nice to stream data over GMRS and start our own network? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoG Posted October 2 Report Share Posted October 2 Bad enough when you have a digital radio on the same frequency intermittently. Can't imagine a video stream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcp2525 Posted October 2 Report Share Posted October 2 3 minutes ago, LeoG said: Bad enough when you have a digital radio on the same frequency intermittently. Can't imagine a video stream The bandwidth required would definitely kill GMRS. Just thinking what ifs out loud. AdmiralCochrane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoG Posted October 2 Report Share Posted October 2 Or you could have a 30x20 pixel screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcp2525 Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 17 minutes ago, LeoG said: Or you could have a 30x20 pixel screen Or do Slow Scan TV like the hams did back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdmiralCochrane Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 1 hour ago, tcp2525 said: Or do Slow Scan TV like the hams did back in the day. SSTV is still a thing. There is a club near me that is big into it. tcp2525 and WRXB215 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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