Following Hurricane Milton's landfall in Florida, here's how to make sure you can send messages via satellite if you have no cellular and Wi-Fi coverage. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology ...

An issue with Verizon on Monday led many cellphone users to look for calling alternatives. The company advised customers to access Wi-Fi communications, but iPhone users without service or internet ...

(KRON) — There are ongoing reports of a widespread outage impacting multiple cellphone and internet providers Monday morning. According to Downdetector.com, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile users have all ...

Britta is the former Deputy Editor of Pocket-lint and has covered the consumer technology industry since 2012. Her specialties include smartphones, smart home, speakers, and wearables. There are so ...

It’s been a year since Apple launched “Emergency SOS via satellite” on the iPhone—and reports suggest that the feature is already saving lives. For example, after a car with two passengers went off ...

Editors' Note: Verizon appears to be suffering an outage in the U.S. on January 14, 2026, which may explain the appearance of the SOS alert on your iPhone. See our Verizon outage live blog for more ...

You’re probably used to seeing a 5G, LTE, or Wi-Fi symbol in your iPhone’s status bar, but recent iOS versions have added another option to the list that may ...

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Thousands of customers woke up Thursday morning to an SOS symbol at the top of their iPhones and no service due to a nationwide telecommunications outage. The outages were impacting AT&T customers the ...