India, Jan. 15 -- Verizon's network was down for tens of thousands of users in the US on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The company said it was aware of the issue and that its engineers are working to identify and solve it.

"We understand how important reliable connectivity is and apologize for the inconvenience."

There were more than 170,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Verizon's services at the time of writing this story, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.

Amid the massive outage, iPhone users saw an SOS-mode message on their devices.

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