Verizon outage on May 1 — 104d 10h disruption
May 1, 08:55 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 104d 10h · high
On May 1, 2026, an incident affecting Verizon services was detected due to an elevated volume of user reports. The incident was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
Users reported experiencing issues primarily categorized as slow/unresponsive service and ISP outages. A total of 201 reports were received during the incident period. The most impacted regions included the United States and the United Kingdom. These reports indicated a disruption to service availability and performance for affected users.
Top reported issues
- Slow / unresponsive152
- ISP outage49
Most affected regions
- United States12
- United Kingdom4
Incident timeline
- May 1, 08:55 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 1, 09:00 PM
Peak of 12 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.3)
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 1, 08:55 PM
Verizon status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
ISP outage clustered from 2 sources across 4 signals. Suppressed 3 redundant alerts.