Verizon experienced an outage Saturday afternoon, with Downdetector showing more than 12,000 reports by 4:25 p.m. ET.
“We are aware of an issue impacting voice services for wireless customers in some parts of the U.S.,” the company confirmed to FOX Business. “Our engineers are engaged, and we are working quickly to identify and resolve the issue.”
Verizon asked customers to look up their status on their Check Network Status page for updates on service.”
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“We know how much people rely on Verizon and apologize for any inconvenience. We appreciate your patience,” the spokesperson added.
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Users also flooded social media to try to figure out what was going on.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VZ | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. | 47.06 | +0.07 | +0.15% |
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“Verizon is down. Looks pretty widespread based on posts. Can’t make or receive calls,” one person wrote on X, while another commented: “Nationwide Verizon outage, phone calls not going through, so far everyone I know is impacted doesn’t matter what state you are in.”
