Verizon acknowledged an hours-long service outage yesterday, which impacted hundreds of thousands of its customers in the Midwest and East Coast. Customers started reporting the outage to tracking website downdetector at noon, which spiked to 148,000 reports by 12:45 p.m. Eastern. The highest reported concentration was in New York City, but users in Charlotte, Houston and Atlanta also noted significant issues.
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