Massive Verizon Wireless Outage Reported In Tri-State Area

NEW YORK CITY — Verizon Wireless customers across the tri-state area and beyond were experiencing problems making and receiving phone calls on Monday morning, as outages were reported nationwide.

Downdetector.com shows that starting around 9:30 a.m., customers began noticing the problems. This included about 1,700 customers in New York City, more than 300 in Philadelphia, and pockets of outages around New Jersey.

Verizon spokesperson Ilya Hemlin told Patch that the company is working to address the outage.

"Starting at 9 a.m. Eastern time this morning, some Verizon wireless customers may be experiencing connectivity issues," Hemlin said. "Our engineering teams are working diligently on the issue. We will provide additional updates as they become available."

According to Downdetector.com, the greatest volume of outages were reported in Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, Indianapolis, Seattle, Omaha, Minneapolis, Cincinnati and Los Angeles.

As of 2:15 p.m. on Monday, there were still about 50,000 people reporting their service was down.