Verizon Outage Horror Stories: Ein schrecklicher, schrecklicher, kein guter, sehr schlechter Tag
https://www.pcmag.com/news/verizon-outage-horror-stories-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day
Verizon Outage Horror Stories: Ein schrecklicher, schrecklicher, kein guter, sehr schlechter Tag
https://www.pcmag.com/news/verizon-outage-horror-stories-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day
6 Kommentare
All the more reason to find a cheap backup phone or esim on a separate network than the one you mainly use. Ironically none of their MVNOs were affected.
Class action incoming. The amount of economic damage from this will be in the tune of billions. Good thing they cut their workforce by 5 percent last year. I’m sure the penny pinching is really going to pay off after all is said and done /s.
Look at how far we’ve regressed. We have become way too dependent on these things. We all used to invent things. We used to navigate every single road by memory. Now we can’t even get out of parking garages. We can’t function without a wifi connection. We are a sad excuse for a society. Every one who struggled during the outage is a straight up incompetent human being. That’s America now.
This is the 3rd time it has happened in the last year.
A guy walks into the cellphone shop, livid. He shouts at the employee, “I run my entire business off this phone, and it’s not making or receiving calls! I lost $30,000! Do you know what this means!?”
The employee thinks for a moment, then replies, “That you’re bad at business?”
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Cellphone service is basically a utility now. Stuff goes down for time to time, and that fucking sucks. It’s always good to have a backup plan, if you truly can’t accept the possibility of downtime. Keep an unlocked phone handy, and know how and where to get a prepaid SIM. One thing that doesn’t work is waiting for a service outage, and asking for a credit for what it felt like to you. Even if you pay $100 per month, being out for a day is $3.34 to them.
That said: I’m still waiting to hear what knocked them out for 4-10 hours. They definitely lost a few customers from that…eventually, when their shit came back up and people could actually port out.
Im pissed that there was no communication about it or during it. Most people were on wifi when available so texts still worked. But i get texted bombed when to pay the bill.