Countless Verizon users reported a widespread outage in their area on January 14, 2026. Get all the updates on the outage, here.

Verizon late Monday afternoon reported progress on resolving a "network issue" that spurred widespread outages across parts of the U.S., including in the Chicago area. In a post on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, at 4:04 p.m., the ...

Network speed tests really only give you a small window into your network's performance. It's not a completely useless test, but it can hide issues that actually make a network feel bad to use, and if you want to understand what's really happening,