Verizon confirmed it’s experiencing a significant outage that seems to be affecting Georgia and small pockets of Florida, in response to a report from native information website WTXL Tallahassee. Wireless clients report they will’t make calls, hook up with knowledge service, or ship and obtain textual content messages. According to a chart from Down Detector, studies of connectivity issues began round 2PM ET, with points largely reported in Georgia.

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“We are aware of network disruptions impacting some customers in parts of Georgia,” Verizon spokesperson Karen Schulz advised The Verge. “Our engineers are working to quickly identify and resolve this issue.”

It’s unclear what has brought on the outage or when connectivity is anticipated to return, however the outage is probably going closely impacting companies who use Verizon’s companies and doubtlessly even calls to 911. As reported by native information station WJCL, evidently some counties are taking precautions in terms of emergency calls — Chatham County officers say emergency calls aren’t affected, whereas Bulloch County is advising folks to make use of landlines to name 911. Judging by Down Detector’s knowledge, it seems to be like studies of outages have been slowly declining since round 3:30PM ET, nonetheless, which could possibly be a very good signal.