A massive, 10-hour Verizon outage yesterday took large swaths of Americans back to the pre-smartphone era, causing outrage and in some cases significant consequences.
“I got locked in a parking garage and couldn’t get out due to no cell service to call,” one person says. “Missed appointments, late to meetings.”
The outage is resolved, but Verizon has not provided a detailed explanation of what took down its network, only that it was not a cyberattack. “This was a software…

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