The 2025 Indianapolis 500 set a record with 172 terabytes of data used on Verizon's network, showcasing 5G capabilities. The 2025 Indianapolis 500 race saw an unprecedented surge in data usage on the ...

On Wednesday January 14, 2026, Verizon experienced a 10-hour outage, affecting more than 175,000 users. As of January 15, the network is back up.

One user who missed a day of work because of the outage managed to persuade Verizon to offer 10 times its initial payout.

Verizon is waiving domestic call/text/data usage incurred July 7 - Aug 3 for consumer prepaid, postpaid, and small business customers* in 95 zip codes across 28 affected Central Texas counties.

Verizon is currently experiencing a major network outage.