If your phone is suddenly displaying " SOS ," "no service," or " emergency calls only " and you're on Verizon's network, it's probably not your phone's fault, and you're certainly not alone.

Verizon has confirmed its wireless network is experiencing an "issue" on Wednesday, Jan. 14 Reports of outages flooded in to the website Downdetector around 12 p.m. Eastern Time

More than 180,000 Verizon outages were reported during a spike around 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, according to the agency.

Coward is one of thousands left without cell service on Wednesday when a major Verizon outage prevented customers who were on the go from texting, accessing the internet or placing phone calls across ...

The huge Verizon outage that affected more than 1.5 million customers was resolved after almost 10 hours.

On the outage tracking site Down Detector, reports hit an initial peak of 115,000 before surging to over 180,000.