Verizon Wireless customers across South California have encountered service outages.
Consumers who experienced network issues in the afternoon of Friday were not able to make or receive calls.
DownDetector.com has published a Verizon Wireless outage map, showing off that the outage affected customers living in Santa Barbara down to San Diego, which include Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura counties plus some parts of the Inland Empire.
In the meantime, a Verizon spokesperson had confirmed that the carrier experienced a service interruption, impacting quite a few users in SouthCal.
"Earlier today, Verizon Wireless experienced a service disruption affecting voice service in parts of Los Angeles and San Diego and surrounding communities," says Heidi Flato in an email to CBS Los Angeles. "Technicians worked quickly to resolve the issue and service was fully restored at 5:38 p.m. this evening."
The company is apologizing for any trouble the service outage may have caused.
Verizon has yet to disclose what have caused the service interruption and how many of its customers were affected.
As expected, customers took to social media to gripe about the problems troubling them. The hashtag #Verizonoutage spread like wildfire on Twitter because of the outages.
Sweet none of my calls will go through because Verizon is down in all of Southern California
Hi everyone, Verizon Wireless is down in Southern California over voice network yet data is working. — Rick Martin (@RickMartin993) March 18, 2016
This is how we feel @verizon about the phone outage till midnight tonight #verizonoutage pic.twitter.com/u6fp8M5SMq
— Chelsea (@chelsgolub) March 18, 2016
#verizon #Verizonoutage fix it
The outages were not just experienced in Southern California. The outage map also shows that the network service also went down in other major cities.
In August last year, subscribers of four biggest carriers in the United States, namely T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T plus Verizon have encountered a widespread service interruption in the southeastern part of the country.
Back then, consumers from Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee and Indiana experienced difficulties in gaining access to voice and data services.
The carriers were quick to push out their statements regarding the issues and assured customers that they were working on the problems to make certain that the services are restored as quickly as possible.
