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.

A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be…

There were more than 130,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Verizon's services around 1:11 pm ET, according to Downdetector.