Amid Verizon outage, Bay Area emergency services and businesses proceed as usual.
Amid a nationwide Verizon outage that impacted phone service from coast to coast, business and emergency services in the Bay Area largely continued operations as usual on Monday.
More than 100,000 people across the country reported issues with their Verizon phone service Monday, with the peak of reports coming around between 8 and 9 a.m., according to Downdetector, a service that monitors technology outages. Verizon announced Monday afternoon that services were beginning to come back online, but the company did not confirm how many of its more than 110 million customers in the U.S. were affected.
“We live and die on our phones,” said Rob Enderle, a technology analyst. An outage “creates a fairly big drag.”
The San Jose Police Department received no reports that 911 calls were impacted by the outage, a spokesperson said. Both the Oakland Police Department and the San Francisco Police Department also both reported that there were no communication issues.
