Verizon Outage in Georgia. What We Know After Cell Service Disruption

Staff Report From Georgia CEO

Friday, January 16th, 2026

Many Verizon customers across Georgia are back online after a major network outage that disrupted service for much of Wednesday, but questions remain about what went wrong and whether refunds are coming.

According to TechRadar and outage tracking data, the Verizon disruption lasted roughly 10 to 12 hours, impacting hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide, including large parts of Georgia.

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