Verizon and AT&T customers have reported their phones being stuck in SOS mode due to what appears to be a widespread outage.

Some Verizon customers across the U.S. were hit by a service outage Monday. 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,

Verizon services are reportedly down across the country, according to the website downdetector.com. An outage map on the site shows several spots experiencing trouble with service on Monday, Sept. 30.

North Carolina residents struggling to contact their families in the wake of Hurricane Helene aren't the only Americans experiencing cell service outages this week. On Sept. 30, Verizon customers began reporting service outages in major cities like New York,

Verizon said it was restoring service after experiencing a technical issue that led to hundreds of thousands of reports of outages on Monday.

Exactly what the issues are, how many people they're affecting or when they might be resolved was not immediately known. The carrier says that the problems were unrelated to Hurri

The outage wasn't isolated to one region. DownDetector's map also showed many reports coming from the West Coast, Midwest and Northeast.