The incident is evolving and ongoing, with updates likely as more information becomes available.

Verizon faced a nationwide outage hitting wireless voice and data, with many phones reported in SOS mode around midday as the outage spread across the United States.

DownDetector served as a primary source for outage reports, though spikes in that tracker can reflect variable problems or reporting errors and may not indicate a single coordinated incident across all carriers.

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NBC New York and other local outlets provided coverage, signaling broader regional attention to the outage.

Reporting includes Diana Leyva as a source for trending news and service journalism on the event.

Contact information for Jefferson Weaver, Managing Editor of Columbus County News, was provided.

The report lacks a specific timeline for restoration and does not provide a date-specific resolution estimate.

AT&T had not issued an official comment at the time, with no corroborating public statement released.

The New York Times contributed to coverage of the developing outage.

Context notes tie the outage to a broader pattern of recent technical glitches, including a prior August outage at AT&T.

Downdetector and user counts were central to the article’s depiction of the outage’s reach.