Verizon Outage Triggers SOS
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The carrier has suffered a major outage across the U.S. in the last few hours and it’s not over yet. Here’s the latest.
More than 150,000 Verizon customers are reporting outages on Wednesday, Jan. 14, according to Downdetector. As of 12:37 p.m. ET, roughly 157,596 customers have reported outages to the real-time tracking website.
Verizon has acknowledged a wireless services outage in the U.S. Wednesday afternoon and stated that its engineers are working to fix the problem.
Downdetector, which tracks outages, reported a spike nationwide in outages after noon ET Wednesday, with more than 150,000 reports from across the country. Locations with reported outages include New York City, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Charlotte and Dallas.