Major outage: Verizon confirms it’s working to restore service after widespread complaints

New York (CNN) — Verizon has confirmed an outage affecting immoderate of its mobile telephone users that sparked a flurry of complaints connected societal media astir disruptions to placing calls and accessing nan internet.

“We are alert of an rumor impacting work for immoderate customers,” a Verizon spokesperson told CNN Monday. “Our engineers are engaged and we are moving quickly to place and lick nan issue.”

The outage appeared to commencement happening astir 11 americium ET, pinch astir 100,000 reports from customers connected DownDetector, a tract that tracks complaints astir work outages.

Complaints to Verizon’s verified relationship connected X show that customers person been disappointment by a deficiency of compartment work and an inability to link to nan network. The outage appears to person been ongoing for respective hours, opening mid-morning Monday.

Many Verizon iPhone customers complained that their phones had been stuck successful “SOS” mode Monday morning, allowing only emergency calls via satellite.

Verizon has 114.2 cardinal subscribers successful nan United States, according to its website.