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It sounds like Verizon’s enormous service outage on Monday might be nearing its end.
The company took to X (formerly Twitter) to share an update late Monday afternoon. According to the post, cell service « has started to be restored » and the company apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the outage.
There were millions of outage reports submitted to DownDetector alone, so this affected a whole lot of people around the U.S.
I can confirm that the outage was real, personally. My phone lost service around noon ET and didn’t get it back until after 5 p.m.
Wi-Fi still worked that whole time, but if I wasn’t near a router, I couldn’t access data of any kind unless I used the iPhone’s SOS feature. That requires a clear view of the sky and I live in a city full of very tall buildings, so that wasn’t the best solution.
But according to Verizon, outage issues should be over soon.
