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

Verizon cell prospects reported widespread outages throughout the US on Monday. Beginning at round 9:30AM ET, a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals flagged points with their cell service on Downdetector, which tracks user-submitted outage reviews. The quantity of reviews spiked at nearly 105,000 at 11:20AM, however had been nonetheless reaching nearly 59,000 at 12:52PM.

Many people claimed they had 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 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 instructed that the problem was most prevalent in New York, New Jersey, Georgia and elsewhere on the east coast and midwest. A slender yellow band of reviews 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 prospects. “Our engineers are engaged and we’re working shortly to unravel the problem,” the corporate wrote on X at 11:48AM. The reason for the outage is just not but clear.