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

Verizon cellular clients reported widespread outages throughout the US on Monday. Beginning at round 9:30AM ET, tons of of 1000’s of individuals flagged points with their cellular service on Downdetector, which tracks user-submitted outage studies. The quantity of studies spiked at nearly 105,000 at 11:20AM, however had been nonetheless reaching nearly 59,000 at 12:52PM.

Many of us 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 an alternative 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. Nonetheless, affected iPhone customers can nonetheless make emergency calls by way of different networks.

A Downdetector heatmap steered 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 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 shortly to resolve the difficulty,” the corporate wrote on X at 11:48AM. The reason for the outage shouldn’t be but clear.