India, Jan. 15 -- Verizon customers throughout the United States experienced difficulties with their phone service on Wednesday. Meanwhile, some news outlets like FOX4 and Mashable.com claimed that AT&T and T-Mobile customers also reported issues. However, T-Mobile Help has clarified that they are currently not showing any coverage concerns.

Reports of service issues began to surface on DownDetector at approximately 12:00 p.m. ET on January 14.

As per DownDetector, which monitors service interruptions, there were over 171,000 reports of Verizon outages by 12:30 p.m. ET.

Half of the users reported problems with their mobile signal, while others indicated issues with WiFi and broadband internet.

The company acknowledged the outage via s...