Internet users across the northeast US reported widespread outages Tuesday that impacted businesses and employees working from home due to the lingering coronavirus pandemic.
Problems started around 11:00am ET and spanned from Washington DC up through Boston, leaving a number of major companies without service like Amazon Web Services, Zoom, Gmail and Slack - all of which are staples of remote workers.
DownDetector, which monitors such events, reported Verizon Fios users in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other major East Coast cities were unable load web pages or experienced slow speeds on the web.
In an emailed statement 90 minutes after the outage was first reported, Verizon said it was working on the problem hurting Fios service throughout the Northeast corridor and that some service had already been restored.