With Verizon having all hands on deck in dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the Telecom giant experienced a sudden nationwide outage this morning, leaving millions of customers unable to send calls or texts.
The outage began around 9:30 a.m. ET with customers from the Midwest reporting their cell phone service was completely down.
“Well over 100k customers are reporting issues with mobile phones,” Tea Storm Chasers, a nonprofit that tracks storms and police scanner calls, said on X.
A map charting the outages showed it spread from New York City to as far west as Colorado, and as far north as Minnesota, but centering mostly in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and parts of Kentucky….