Verizon and AT&T customers report phones are stuck in SOS: Here's what to do about the widespread outage

A widespread outage affected Verizon customers across the country on Monday. Reports of cell outages flooded onto social media as Verizon worked to fix the problem and addressed myriad complaints from customers online and in-person, until finally reporting that it was restoring service at 5 p.m. Eastern.According to Downdetector, reports of issues with cellular connection started to flood in at around 10 a.m. on Monday and have steadily climbed, persisting for more than seven hours for some customers.Below is Laptop Mag's live blog of reporting and updates as they came in.Refresh 2024-09-30T15:13:18.565ZA widespread outage is affecting Verizon customers across the country. Reports of disrupted cell service are flooding onto social media as Verizon works to fix the problem.According to Downdetector, reports of issues with cellular connection started to flood in at around 10 a.m. on Monday and have steadily climbed, persisting well into the afternoon. If your phone is stuck in SOS, don't...