Social media users in Atlanta and other parts of Georgia reported that their Verizon service was down and experiencing an outage.

The peak of the complaints occurred on the evening of Friday, Dec. 16, 2023.

The Verizon outage doesn’t seem to have been restricted to Georgia. Some users up and down the East Coast also complained about service being down, including the inability to make calls, connect to Wi-Fi or their data plans.

Is Verizon Down In Atlanta?

AtlantaFi.com reached out to a Verizon customer service representative on Friday about 6:30 p.m. and was told that an outage was expected to be resolved in the next few hours.

This screenshot from Down Dectector shows the approximate time when most of the Georgia users reported the Verizon outage.

How Can I Find Out If Verizon Has an Outage in My Area?

There are two ways you can find out whether Verizon is down in your area.

  1. Sign in to your My Verizon account: Use your phone or laptop to sign in. If Verizon knows about a network outage in your area, you’ll see a Network Notification alert at the top of your screen.
  2. Check your network status with Verizon Fios online.
  3. Visit Downdetector.com to see whether other users have reported outages and down times as well as when service was reported to be working again.

Final Word

Verizon definitely has had some outage issues over the past few days. When your phone breaks, you can take it to a place to get it fix.

When your cell phone data is down, there’s little you can do.

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