Definitely not the result of the union playing hardball in their negotiations… From: Outages [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] On Behalf Of Damian Menscher via Outages Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 1:58 PM To: chris Cc: outages@outages.org Subject: Re: [outages] Verizon Issues? On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:30 AM, chris via Outages <outages@outages.org<mailto:outages@outages.org>> wrote: Anyone aware of any known outages/issues for FIOS? Have a handful of customers in northern NJ with business FIOS with 50%+ packet loss on all verizon hops. We have checked these customers and theres no congestion on their networks. We're aware of the Verizon strike in progress and wondering if maybe some repair or maintenance is not being done because of the strike? ...or possibly worse: http://www.verizon.com/about/news/criminals-put-thousands-verizon-customers-... Damian If anyone from VZ has ability to dig deeper or if anyone else is seeing similar issues would be good to hear.