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Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage
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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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not always, when I’m out in the middle of nowhere, I also see sos
By out in the middle of nowhere, you would have to not be able to connect to any carrier network at all. If you are a Verizon customer and can't get Verizon signal, but you can see an AT&T tower, you will connect to it to make 911 calls, or a T-Mobile tower, if that's the one you can see. It doesn't matter. Every carrier has to carry 911 calls for every other carrier.
Also iphones I think use satellite for SoS capability now if no cell
I know my Pixel 9 can too.
Oh nice I have the 8, didn't know the 9 had satellite
good point, hadn’t thought of that