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Nationwide Verizon outage impacted customers in the Seattle area

Sep 30, 2024, 9:32 AM | Updated: Oct 7, 2024, 11:13 am

Image: A sign can be seen on the exterior of a Verizon store on Jan. 23, 2024 in El Cerrito, Califo...

A sign can be seen on the exterior of a Verizon store on Jan. 23, 2024 in El Cerrito, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)

(Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)

Over 100,000 Verizon users across the country reported a service outage Monday morning, including some in the Seattle area.

first started seeing reports of issues shortly after 6:30 a.m. and the issues peaked at more than 105,000 users just after 8:15 a.m. As of 8:45 a.m., over 82,000 users still were reporting issues. The number has been steadily decreasing since it reached its peak between 8 and 9 a.m. As of 3 p.m., the number of reports of issues was at around 7,400. As of 11 p.m., the number of reports was down into the hundreds. Downdetector “is powered by unbiased, transparent user reports and problem indicators from around the web,” according to its . It is part of is connectivity intelligence company , which is a division of media and internet company .

Verizon’s X account published confirming “an issue impacting service for some customers.” The company added its engineers are working to solve the issue.

The @VerizonNews account added another post stating its the company’s engineers “are making progress on our network issue and service has started to be restored.”

That Verizon account confirmed that the company’s engineers “fully restored today’s network disruption” and “Service has returned to normal levels.”

Earlier in the day, , Verizon’s customer service account on X, , had been responding to dozens of users reporting service issues.

Right now we are experiencing a nationwide outage that is affecting several cities,” one post to a user in Phoenix states. “Our technicians are working on getting the situation fixed and service will start to be restored gradually.”

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The (FCC) also about the Verizon outage, stating it is “working to determine the cause and extent of these service disruptions.”

Dozens of people in the Seattle area, including AM 770 KTTH host Jason Rantz, reported Monday morning that they were experiencing service issues. Just before 2 p.m., his service still was down after he didn’t have service.

Several X users noted their phones were stuck in SOS mode. Some Verizon iPhone customers saw SOS messages displayed in the status bar on their cellphones. The message indicates that the device is having trouble connecting to their cellular provider鈥檚 network, but it can make emergency calls through other carrier networks.

“I just saw that I didn’t have any signal but everything else was working on Wi-Fi,” Vivian in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood told 成人X站 Newsradio.

During cell service outages like this, one alternative is connecting to nearby Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi calling is also a built-in feature on most Android devices and iPhones and can be turned on under the phone鈥檚 settings.

Contributing: The Associated Press; Sam Campbell, 成人X站 Newsradio

Steve Coogan is the lead editor of MyNorthwest. You can read more of his stories here. Follow Steve on , or email him here.

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Nationwide Verizon outage impacted customers in the Seattle area