Cloudflare has released details outlining the scale of the recent Verizon outage which affected millions of telco users across the US.Verizon customers across the country first experienced connectivity issues on September 30, with users reporting their devices were stuck in SOS mode amidst the outage. At the time, data from Downdetector showed a massive spike in reports across the country, and customers were unable to make or receive calls from mobile devices.While the issue has since been remedied by Verizon, analysis from Cloudflare has now laid bare the significant impact it had on connectivity across the US.Verizon outageIn a blog post detailing the outage, David Belson, Head of Data Insight at Cloudflare, analyzed data from AS6167 (CELLCO), an autonomous system used by Cloudflare to manage its mobile network.Drawing upon this data enabled Cloudflare to track HTTP requests made by the autonomous system and shed light on the scale of connectivity issues affecting individual cities a...
