CIR: CIR 7.1.A – Cellular infrastructure outage, or imminent outage, impacting, or with the potential to impact, public safety, public health, and/or critical infrastructure
Incident Date/Time: 01-14-2026 12:27
Information Authority: SWIC
Localities Affected: United States (Country-Wide)
Incident Location: USA
Incident Summary: Verizon is experiencing an intermittent outage, impacting major cities nationwide. Approximately 177,000 users are affected, with many devices displaying SOS Mode. Unknown cause of the outage with unknown restoration time. Other US based cell carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T, and US cellular) are starting to service impacts to their customers.