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Verizon is offline: Widespread outages impact US users
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Verizon is offline: Widespread outages impact US users

According to subscribers in the United States, Verizon is experiencing a massive outage. Some of us here 9to5Mac are also affected by the outage and will not have access to any form of mobile connectivity. This includes mobile data, phone calls and text messages.

It’s not just you, Verizon is down

On the downtime aggregator Downdetector, complaints about a Verizon outage started to spike shortly after 10am ET/9am PT. The company has not yet responded to the problems. There are also many complaints on social media.

Verizon has not commented on the outage and there is no timetable for when the issues will be resolved. The Verizon outage affects phone calls, text messages and mobile data services.

While details are still unknown, the outage appears to mainly affect users in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, West Virginia, and Maryland.

For iPhone users, this means that the Verizon service on the iPhone will appear as “SOS Only” mode. In a support document, Apple says that seeing SOS in your iPhone’s status bar means your phone isn’t connected to a cellular network, but you can still make emergency calls. You can learn more about what SOS mode on your iPhone means in our dedicated guide:

Are you having problems with your Verizon service today? Let us know in the comments below.

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