Verizon Communications said late on Wednesday it was making progress in restoring mobile phone service and plans to offer impacted consumers credits for an hours-long outage that disrupted calls, texting and internet usage for hundreds of thousands of customers.

Verizon customers experienced a mobile service outage across the nation on Wednesday. More than 180,000 unconfirmed reports were made to Downdetector, peaking in the early afternoon. The hotspot map showed most of the reports coming from City,

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Verizon said on Wednesday that its wireless service was suffering an outage impacting cellular data and voice services