Verizon outage strikes thousands across the US as customers can't send texts or calls [View all]

Source: Independent

Thousands of Verizon customers across the U.S. are unable to make calls and texts after the network suffered an outage, with some criticizing the provider’s lack of updates as “shameful.”

More than 23,000 people reported an outage with Verizon, according to the website Down Detector, which started Saturday at around noon E.T. and is ongoing in certain places.

Almost 60 percent of the outage reports were for mobile devices, with 40 percent of those reporting having no signal, according to Down Detector.

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By 6 p.m. E.T. almost 18,000 customers were still reporting issues with their service.

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