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You're not alone. A Verizon outage today, Wednesday, Jan. 14, is causing many users to report that their phone is ... Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.

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If your phone is suddenly displaying "SOS," "no service," or "emergency calls only" and you're on Verizon's network, it's probably ... Lifehacker: Here's How to Fix Your Phone Now That Verizon Says the Outage Is Resolved Here's How to Fix Your Phone Now That Verizon Says the Outage Is Resolved Ultimately it probably doesn't have a safe .get method because a dict is an associative collection (values are associated with names) where it is inefficient to check if a key is present (and return its value) without throwing an exception, while it is super trivial to avoid exceptions accessing list elements (as the len method is very fast). The .get method allows you to query the value ...