Shouldn't matter. 4G and 3G technologies are still implemented as fallback.
There are a lot of reports of people standing literally next to each other with different statuses, with the same services and phones. It is spawning quite a few conspiracy theories, especially with the cell tower deal that just happened.
The two people standing next to each other woth different statuses may mean their system went down that tells which device is registered to them or not. Maybe a hack, server outage, or other factors.
It's really weird and seems totally random. People spreading a lot of false information that is easily debunked just by viewing other comments of people who are down (4G vs 5G which already doesn't make sense, e-SIM vs physical SIM which is essentially irrelevant, etc.)
Right now the best theory I've seen is that somehow coinciding with this deal, they deactivated / deauthenticated massive swaths of customers' accounts or numbers on "accident". Which makes no sense, since that should never happen and certainly not on this scale.
As of now, everyone I know personally is still down.
I also think that Verizon's deal should be backpedaled by the FCC, or Verizon should lose every cent they made from the deal because this problem should not happen and it is happening at a time that it ABSOLUTELY should not happen when things like rescue efforts are reliant on cell phone use.
If they released an "update" at this time that screwed all of this up, they specifically chose just about the worst time to do so and they deserve consequences for that.
I have a family member who has a 5G phone and they have no Verizon service.
My phone is older, not 5G, and I have service.
Shouldn't matter. 4G and 3G technologies are still implemented as fallback.
There are a lot of reports of people standing literally next to each other with different statuses, with the same services and phones. It is spawning quite a few conspiracy theories, especially with the cell tower deal that just happened.
The two people standing next to each other woth different statuses may mean their system went down that tells which device is registered to them or not. Maybe a hack, server outage, or other factors.
It's really weird and seems totally random. People spreading a lot of false information that is easily debunked just by viewing other comments of people who are down (4G vs 5G which already doesn't make sense, e-SIM vs physical SIM which is essentially irrelevant, etc.)
Right now the best theory I've seen is that somehow coinciding with this deal, they deactivated / deauthenticated massive swaths of customers' accounts or numbers on "accident". Which makes no sense, since that should never happen and certainly not on this scale.
As of now, everyone I know personally is still down.
I also think that Verizon's deal should be backpedaled by the FCC, or Verizon should lose every cent they made from the deal because this problem should not happen and it is happening at a time that it ABSOLUTELY should not happen when things like rescue efforts are reliant on cell phone use.
If they released an "update" at this time that screwed all of this up, they specifically chose just about the worst time to do so and they deserve consequences for that.
Oh, they will be being fined by the FCC (Uncle Charlie).