Mass Internet outages were reported throughout the Northeast, impacting some of the nation’s largest companies, some local businesses, and schools.Outages were first reported at approximately 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 26 when websites inc.
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Some service had been restored to users on the East Coast, a Verizon spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday afternoon, but many were still experiencing issues from the outage.
Amazon noted that its network and online services aren’t causing the outage, The Associated Press reported.
“We are investigating connectivity issues with an internet provider, mainly affecting the East Coast of the United States, outside of the (Amazon Web Services) Network,” the company said. “We are investigating the issue with the external provider.”
Slack said in a statement they were aware of the issue.
“We re aware of and monitoring an internet service issue that could impact East Coast users internet connection and ability to use Slack. This trouble seems to be isolated to the East Coast of the United States,” Slack said.
Widespread internet outages hit northeast US Users across the northeast U.S. reported widespread internet outages Tuesday. (Source: Bernadette Heier) By Associated Press | January 26, 2021 at 12:52 PM EST - Updated January 26 at 5:42 PM
(AP) - Internet users across the northeast U.S. experienced widespread outages for several hours Tuesday, interrupting work and school because of an unspecified Verizon network issue.
“An internet issue impacting the quality of our Fios service throughout the Northeast has been resolved,” said spokesman Rich Young in an emailed statement Tuesday afternoon. He said service levels “are returning to normal” and the company is investigating what happened. The service interruptions were unrelated to a cut fiber in Brooklyn, New York, which caused problems for people in the area.
Major internet outage hits customers across northeast US
By Kelly Hayes
A widespread internet outage was reported Tuesday, impacting many customers across the northeast U.S.
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.
Down Detector, a website that offers real-time status updates on outages, showed thousands of reports of issues with Verizon Fios service earlier Tuesday impacting both landline internet and mobile internet.
The telecom giant had reported a cut fiber in Brooklyn via Twitter, although it’s not clear if that issue was responsible for the entire outage. Verizon didn t give any estimate in its email about when the problem would be fixed and didn t reply to questions about what caused the problem.