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Nearly 200,000 users reported their service being disrupted on Wednesday, according to Downdetector, with reports flooding in around noon. A majority of the issues were reported to be related to mobile phone connectivity, at 61%, followed by users having no signal, at 35%, and mobile internet disruptions, at 4%.
Consumer Reports states that Verizon, Lively, AT&T, Optimum, and USCellular are phone carriers that customers should probably avoid.
Verizon says it's working to restore service. But if your Verizon device still shows "SOS" instead of service bars, you're affected by today's outage.
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New York State Assembly member Anil Beephan called on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the hourslong service outage.
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