As of 12:00 p.m. ET, DownDetector (a site that shares the same parent company as Mashable) shows that there have been over 100,000 reports of Verizon outages. Fifty-one percent say that the issue involves their mobile phone, 35 percent say they're not getting any signals, and 14 percent say they're experiencing a total blackout.

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

Verizon is currently experiencing a major outage that is affecting many customers across the U.S., including iPhone users. Affected users may