Verizon outages today, Wednesday, Jan. 14, hit the U.S. with customers reporting "SOS" mode on their phones, Fios outages, home internet and Wi-Fi outages and other Verizon service issues. In an update on X today, Verizon said it is "working on the issue."

Tens of thousands of people — more than 180,000 at one point — across the United States reported issues using Verizon Wednesday. Verizon said it was aware of an issue impacting wireless voice and data services for some customers.

Thousands of Verizon customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut reported cellular service outages on Wednesday, Jan. 14.

The scale proved unprecedented. Reports on Down Detector hit an initial peak of 115,000 before surging to over 180,000, representing hundreds of thousands more unreported cases. The disruption affected users from South Florida to Albany, New York, as far west as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later expanded to include Texas and Missouri.

Verizon said it has resolved an hours-long outage that is believed to have left tens of thousands of US customers without access to voice and data services for much of Wednesday.

Rival carriers T-Mobile and AT&T piled on as Verizon struggled through a massive nationwide outage on Wednesday, telling customers its own network was operating normally while pointing the

During the Verizon outage, police warned that contacting 911 could be tricky. Big disruptions can have cascading effects on everyday life.