By Marley Parish
Update: At 9:30 p,m., (October 17, 2019) Verizon tweeted that engineers were able to identify and fix the issue that had been causing interruptions in 4G LTE service. Those who are still experiencing issues should restart their phones, the tweet said.
A massive Verizon outage affecting all parts of the United States, mainly around coastal states, occurred Thursday morning and again late in the afternoon.
Downdetector, which displays real time overviews of service outages, shows north eastern parts of the country as being affected the most. According to the outage map, Columbus, Ohio, New York City, Houston, Pittsburgh, Lansing, Michigan, Chicago, Indianapolis, Brooklyn, New York and Grand Rapids, Michigan were the most reported locations as being impacted by the outage. The map also shows outages around the State College and Bellefonte areas.