[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] lowlight1974:
This falls in line with the EXACT same thing I experienced with 1 exception. I experienced it 1 day before you did. Same issue, internet died (for nearly an hour, maybe 45 mins or so, I'm an impatient person lol). I called the CSR idiots to see if there was a reported outage and to my surprise the guy on the other end was just as tech savvy as myself and even used his own phone to discover that indeed data was down (he was in Boston). He noted that NO outage was reported and that NO scheduled maint was done either. With the fact that you're just now seeing the same problem 1 day later, it's clear that I was correct and that this is a rolling internal update from verizon on their internal network servers. This is Verizon's doing and not FoxFi's VPN server that some techheads in this thread have been trying to say. I'm not as stupid as I look. I can tell the difference between a VPN connection during an authentication process and an all out system wide network outage that affected the entire region and other applications on the phone. FoxFi's VPN being down would NOT affect internet connectivity on the phone at all and this is one fact that the techheads were ignoring which completely invalidated the idea that it was a VPN problem.

**** verizon and their antics. I did report it to the FCC though. And I got a reply back as seen below. I had emailed the commisioners (ALL of them) as well as filled out the informal form that they mention in the email. Others need to do the same. When/if you do any reporting, be sure to mention this thread as well as the FCC's own letter regarding the matter here: https://www.fcc.gov/document/verizon-wireless-pay-125-million-settle-investigation from several years ago when Verizon was caught doing this exact same thing and were fined for it and agreed NOT to do it again. Phhhhh fat chance.

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