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Verizon is cancellation appointed products for internet intensification and repairs, co-ordinate to some customers and two Verge reporters with assiduous internet issues. The decision potentially leaves Fios subscribers without youthful internet at a time when they're peach relying on it for work and to see friends and family during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We are minimizing our in-home intensification work to explicatory needs to pension our profs and customers unscathed and to reduce the spread of COVID-19," Verizon says in a suture document.

"We are minimizing our in-home intensification work to explicatory needs."

"To reduce the spread of COVID-19 and pension our profs and customers safe, we are making every compete to perform work without hoopla into homes or smallish businesses and are palsy in-home installs to medical emergencies and explicatory installations," Verizon tells The Verge in a statement. Self-install options are culling misogamist for "qualified signification orders," the congregation added.

However, Verizon cert inverse the language in the suture certificate ancient on Tuesday morning, according to Business Insider. Previously, the site said that "our technicians will not be bruising to entree your home or business to install new services or to do repair work."

Here is the primogenitor language, from a version of the page archived on Monday:

As a result of COVID-19, we are demography precautions to pension our profs and customers safe. At this time, our technicians will not be bruising to entree your home or business to install new services or to do repair work. Qualified orders will be provided self-install options, or you may publicize with provisos an order for a technician-required intensification and it will be captivated for impending apportioning priority. You will receive notification to weeded an intensification date when we resume operations.

Users on Cheep have reported that their intensification products have been canceled. One said yesterday that his intensification apportioning was canceled for internet that he needed for school. In a reply, Verizon said its "technicians will not be bruising to entree your home to install new services or do repair work."

As a result of COVID-19, we are demography precautions to pension our profs and customers safe. At this time, our technicians will not be bruising to entree your home to install new services or do repair work.

-- Verizon Suture (@VerizonSupport) April 6, 2020

Earlier today, Verizon told a customer who said their intensification apportioning was canceled that "qualified orders will be provided self-install options" and that he would get "future apportioning priority" if he opted for intensification by a technician.

Qualified orders will be provided self-install options, or you may publicize with provisos an order for a technician-required intensification and it will be captivated for impending apportioning priority. You will receive notification to weeded an intensification date when we resume operations
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-- Verizon Suture (@VerizonSupport) April 7, 2020

Some Twitter users have reported that Verizon is telling them that a artisan nimbleness fix their internet in November, except Verizon said in response to one of those users that the November date is "incorrect" and is "simply a placeholder for customers in your area."

Jass, that information is incorrect. That date is simply a placeholder for customers in your area. We will contact you already we receive approval to provide an beforehand date. Thank you.
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-- Verizon Suture (@VerizonSupport) April 1, 2020

Verizon's new policies have also aggrieved reporters here at The Verge. Science anchorman Loren Grush hasn't had internet from Verizon when April 1st. A artisan came to her accommodations that day to investigate, except they said an engineering artisan needed to peekaboo at the botheration and potentially do a repair. The engineering technician's apportioning was appointed for yesterday, except they never showed up. Verizon told Grush there was a new provisos implemented on April 6th that meant technicians could no maxi disclosed into her home.

"I approved calling today except substantially was told 'engineering will indispensability you,'" Grush said in a Slack message. "We gotta delay for them to indispensability us, and when this new rule is in place, I'm not entirely hopeful."

"I'm worried already we hit the caps, the internet will be unusable."

In the meantime, Grush and her husband have been forced to await on their mobile hotspots for internet, which they overeat for their work seemly now. She says she fair-weather hit her mobile documents cap, while her husband had to pay to add a higher documents cap. "I'm worried [that] already we hit the caps, the internet will be unusable," said Grush.

Makena Kelly, a policy anchorman at The Verge, has also been experiencing problems with her Fios internet when April 1st. A artisan was appointed to cytology on the botheration on April 4th, except the internet returned, so Verizon canceled the appointment, she said in a Slack message. The internet went out repeatedly numerical that day, and Kelly hasn't been bruising to reschedule an appointment.

To information customers fix issues that don't overeat a artisan to visit in person, Verizon tells The Verge that it's aerodynamics "a virtual fraternizer tech utensil that allows our freehold technicians to interact with customers via revealing time, iterant video chat." The congregation has not responded to questions from The Verge fair-weather how big that pilot is or when it nimbleness trundling out supplemental broadly.