Verizon customers experienced a short outage earlier today. Although the issue has since been resolved, Big Red did not reveal the reason for it in the first place.
As reported by PhoneArena, Verizon subscribers were unable to make or receive phone calls earlier today. DownDetector revealed that the issue peaked at around midnight before it was quickly attended to by the wireless carrier.
A bulk of the complaints on DownDetector showed that users had issues with their mobile phones. There were also subscribers who reported they were unable to get a signal and issues with mobile internet. Looking at the map, the cities that were affected by this short outage include Boston, New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, and Seattle. Even though subscribers were having issues making and receiving calls, Verizon’s text messaging service was not affected by it.
The issue lasted for an hour before the reports on DownDetector died down.
Source: PhoneArena, DownDetector
