The outage is affecting the eastern United States. Downdetector, which tracks outages, reported a spike nationwide in outages after noon ET Wednesday, with tens of thousands of reports from across the country. Locations with reported outages include New York City, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Charlotte and Dallas.

Nearly 200,000 users reported their service being disrupted on Wednesday, according to Downdetector, with reports flooding in around noon. A majority of the issues were reported to be related to mobile phone connectivity, at 61%, followed by users having no signal, at 35%, and mobile internet disruptions, at 4%.

Telecom giant Verizon experienced a phone service outage on Wednesday that impacted over 100,000 users in the U.S., with the company working to restore connectivity.

New York State Assembly member Anil Beephan called on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the hourslong service outage.

More than 150,000 Verizon customers are reporting outages on Wednesday, Jan. 14, according to Downdetector. As of 12:37 p.m. ET, roughly 157,596 customers have reported outages to the real-time tracking website.

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