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Verizon Experiences Nationwide Service Outage Affecting Tens of Thousands of Customers

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storf45

9mo ago· 4 min readenNews

Summary

Verizon experienced a major nationwide outage on Saturday afternoon, leaving tens of thousands of customers across the United States unable to make calls or send text messages. The service disruption began around 12pm ET and resulted in nearly 24,000 outage reports being catalogued on Down Detector. Customers expressed frustration on social media about the widespread communication breakdown.

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Verizon experienced a nationwide outage this afternoon leaving tens of thousands customers across the United States unable to send texts or make calls
Reports of cell service outages began at around 12pm ET on Saturday
There were almost 24,000 outage reports catalogued on the site
Countless outraged customers said on social media
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Verizon experienced a nationwide outage Saturday afternoon, leaving tens of thousands customers across the United States unable to send calls or texts

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