LiveByMatt Binder Updated at 9:23 am ET October 3, 2024Verizon appears to be facing a massive outage, affecting customers across the U.S.On Monday, Sept. 30, many Verizon users found that their smartphones are stuck in SOS mode. This means that their device does not have cellular service and can only make emergency service calls. DownDetector, which shares the same parent company as Mashable, has received hundreds of thousands of reports of service outages from Verizon users. It's unclear what is causing the issue at this time. Mashable will keep readers updated via this live blog.The Latest6:19 pm ET | September 30, 2024Verizon states outage is over, services fully restoredThe Verizon outage is apparently over, with the company announcing that services have been fully restored."Verizon engineers have fully restored today's network disruption that impacted some customers," Verizon wrote in a post on X. "Service has returned to normal levels. If you are still having issues, we recommend...
