Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Verizon logo on a building. - Al Drago / Getty Images Though the Verizon mobile network was down for hours, one silver lining ...

The recent Verizon outage gave me a wake-up call. I’m sooooo reliant on my phone that I had trouble adjusting to not having service much of Wednesday. I knew I was stuck on tech some years ago. I use ...