Let’s be abundantly clear: as of this writing, there’s still no official word on what caused the Verizon outage. The FCC has launched an investigation, but Verizon has remained mostly silent, offering only a brief apology acknowledging the disruption and stating that the issue is being resolved.

Verizon customers across the United States reported a phone service outage on Monday, according to Downdetector.

Verizon is suffering a "nationwide" outage, leaving customers without phone service or internet. Verizon says users have made reports indicating problems. There was a noticeable increase in reports of issues with texting and calling beginning around 9.

Verizon Wireless experienced a nationwide outage that left users in SOS mode. The company has since restored its network.

The issue appeared to knock out cellphone service for tens of thousands of Verizon users. Data from outage tracker DownDetector shows that reports topped 100,000 shortly after 10 a.m. Central time — and while that number dropped significantly,