Verizon confirms a community outage is affecting cell clients throughout the US

Verizon cell clients reported widespread outages throughout the US on Monday. Beginning at round 9:30AM ET, lots of of hundreds of individuals flagged points with their cell service on Downdetector, which tracks user-submitted outage studies. The amount of studies spiked at virtually 105,000 at 11:20AM, however have been nonetheless reaching virtually 59,000 at 12:52PM.

Many people claimed they have been unable to make or obtain calls or alternate textual content messages. These with an iPhone could also be seeing “SOS” as a substitute of the same old connection bars on the highest proper of their display. That is a typical sight when there’s restricted service or none in any respect. Nevertheless, affected iPhone customers can nonetheless make emergency calls through different networks.

A Downdetector heatmap instructed that the difficulty was most prevalent in New York, New Jersey, Georgia and elsewhere on the east coast and midwest. A slender yellow band of studies was additionally rising on the west coast as of 1:10PM ET. together with an intensifying warmth spot in Los Angeles.

Verizon confirmed that service was affected for some clients. “Our engineers are engaged and we’re working rapidly to resolve the difficulty,” the corporate wrote on X at 11:48AM. The reason for the outage just isn’t but clear.

As of three:45PM ET, Verizon had but to supply an replace on the outage through X. Person outage studies have been nonetheless flooding into Downdetector, nonetheless, with virtually 48,000 of them at 3:10PM.

Replace 3:47PM ET: Noting that the difficulty had not but been resolved over six hours after it first began.