Telecom giant Verizon experienced a phone service outage on Wednesday that impacted over 100,000 users in the U.S., with the company working to restore connectivity.

A broad Verizon outage on January 14, 2026, left hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide unable to make calls, send texts, or use mobile data.

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