Today, the signal is casually tossed into texts during dating disasters or outfit emergencies, but its roots come from genuine life-or-death situations at sea. SOS entered official use in 1905 under ...

State election official Aghogho Edevbie will no longer seek the Democratic nomination to become Michigan's next secretary of state, directly pointing to Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II's arrival to the ...

"This was a software issue, and we are conducting a full review of what happened. As of now, there is no indication that this was a cybersecurity issue," the company said in a statement sent to ...

Verizon today experienced a major outage, which it now says has been resolved. To make up for the inconvenience, the carrier has promised that all affected customers will be credited an unspecified ...

Yesterday, customers of Verizon Communications across the country picked up their phones only to discover that they had no service. Calls, texts, and the internet simply didn’t work. Verizon now says ...

Tens of thousands of Verizon customers reported widespread service problems nationwide. Verizon confirmed it was aware of the issue and that its engineers were working on a fix. An "SOS" or "No ...

If your phone is suddenly displaying "SOS," "no service," or "emergency calls only" and you're on Verizon's network, it's probably not your phone's fault, and you're certainly not alone. More than 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive Verizon outage Jan. 14, downed tens of thousands of Verizon phones, with Verizon customers eager to "fix" SOS mode on ...

A massive Verizon outage Jan. 14, downed tens of thousands of Verizon phones, with Verizon customers eager to "fix" SOS mode on iPhones and turn off "Emergency Calls Only" on Samsung/Android phones.

U.S. wireless carrier Verizon appears to be experiencing an outage, according to Down Detector. As of 12:49 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 175,399 users had reported difficulties via the Down Detector ...

Downdetector reported 126,169 Verizon outage reports as of 1:16 p.m. ET and as many as 180,152 outage reports at 12:46 p.m. ET. The cities with the most reported Verizon outages include: A Verizon ...

A widespread Verizon outage caused connection issues for customers across the United States. DownDetector.com recorded over 170,000 outage reports at its peak. Verizon acknowledged the issue and ...