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, a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals flagged points with their cell service on Downdetector, which tracks user-submitted outage stories. The quantity of stories spiked at virtually 105,000 at 11:20AM, however had been nonetheless reaching virtually 59,000 at 12:52PM.

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

A Downdetector heatmap urged that the difficulty was most prevalent in New York, New Jersey, Georgia and elsewhere on the east coast and midwest. A slim yellow band of stories 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 unravel the difficulty,” the corporate wrote on X at 11:48AM. The reason for the outage will not be but clear.