They rarely give public statements as to the cause of a nationwide issue
like this. The FCC is investigating so at some point, they should release a
report on their findings.

All lines on our account were down from 8:45am until 4:26pm. We had no
service at all. So the issue was pretty bad nationwide.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2024, 7:26 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:

> It’s been 24 hours since Verizon says their engineers fixed the problem,
> so they must know what happened.  Anybody else find it strange that no
> information has been provided, plus the news cycle has moved on and nobody
> seems to care?
>
>
>
> Verizon’s silence makes me suspect it involved some kind of malicious
> attack, not just a firmware update gone bad or some tech pushing the wrong
> button.  I am usually contemptuous of conspiracy theories plus I subscribe
> to Hanlon’s Razor.  But I wonder if there was some kind of DOS attack on
> the SIM authentication process.  Or if they intentionally limited
> authentications to mitigate some kind of attack.
>
>
>
> Something seems fishy.
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