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The outages appear to be happening nationwide, with the most reported locations including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Tampa, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and New York City.
At its peak, the website downdetector showed nearly 173,000 outage reports, as the disruption also impacted users of other networks like T-Mobile and AT&T.
Verizon customers across the US reported widespread service outages on January 14, with many phones showing SOS mode. The company said it is aware of an issue affecting wireless voice and data services and is working to fix it.