Verizon mobile customers reported widespread outages across the US on Monday. Starting at around 9:30AM ET, hundreds of thousands of people flagged issues with their mobile service on Downdetector, which tracks user-submitted outage reports. The volume of reports spiked at almost 105,000 at 11:20AM, but were still reaching almost 59,000 at 12:52PM.
Many folks claimed they were unable to make or receive calls or exchange text messages. Those with an iPhone may be seeing “SOS” instead of the usual connection bars on the top right of their screen. That’s a common sight when there’s limited service or
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