Northern Wyoming News - Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years

Years ago a Verizon Wireless marketing campaign used the phrase “Can you hear me now?” On Saturday and Sunday the answer for Verizon customers in the Big Horn Basin was a resounding “No.”

There was an outage of service that appeared to begin shortly after 7 a.m., according to accounts from customers (myself included). We at first thought it was just my husband’s phone. I had WiFi call...