Thousands impacted by Verizon outage
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A Verizon outage impacted thousands of users on Monday.
Downdetector reported that over 100,000 Verizon customers were experiencing an outage at 10 a.m.
In a post on social media, Verizon said it was aware of a problem.
“Our engineers are engaged and we are working quickly to identify and solve the issue,” officials said.
We are aware of an issue impacting service for some customers. Our engineers are engaged and we are working quickly to identify and solve the issue.
— Verizon News (@VerizonNews) September 30, 2024
About 5:30 p.m., the carrier said that it was making progress and that service was restored to some customers.
“We continue to work around the clock to fully resolve this issue,” Verizon said on X.
Verizon engineers are making progress on our network issue and service has started to be restored. We know how much people rely on Verizon and apologize for any inconvenience some of our customers experienced today. We continue to work around the clock to fully resolve this…
— Verizon News (@VerizonNews) September 30, 2024
The Lincoln Police Department said 911 calls were not impacted by the outage.
ALERT: LPD is aware of a nationwide Verizon outage happening right now. At this time, 911 calls are NOT being impacted by this issue. If you have an emergency, please call or text 911.
— Lincoln Police (@Lincoln_Police) September 30, 2024
