Verizon Suffers Major Outage

Thousands of Verizon users are reporting that their mobile phones have lost network connection and are in "SOS" mode as of Wednesday afternoon.

According to Downdetector, around 180,000 reports relating to the provider had been logged by 12:30 ET Wednesday. The numbers were starting to fall slightly as of 1:40 p.m. ET, according to the Verizon website.

Verizon has acknowledged the issue, which appeared to start just after 12 p.m. ET, in responses to social media users reporting problems with their phones.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Independent.