Is Verizon down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Verizon right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Verizon continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are can't connect, lag or disconnects, high latency, calls dropping, messages not sending, DNS / site unreachable and website / app down. Those are the options the report button offers for Verizon, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Verizon specifically, network congestion, tower outages, or backhaul failures affect specific geographic areas or cell sites independently, so neighboring users on different towers may have service while you do not. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Verizon, try making a call or sending an SMS to a friend, then check whether the problem follows you to a different location or persists only at home. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Verizon's side. Specifically: avoid repeatedly attempting calls or data transfers, as this drains your battery and can delay network recovery; instead, switch to WiFi calling if available and wait for service restoration. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Verizon does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe verizon.com directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what Verizon says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at www.verizon.com/support/check-network-status, and it is linked further up this page. That is Verizon's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Verizon or verizon.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Verizon's own support, not us.