Verizon Restores Service After 10-Hour Outage, Offers Customer Credits

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Verizon says mobile service has been restored after a 10-hour outage that disrupted calls, texts and data for hundreds of thousands of users, with account credits planned for affected customers; there’s no indication of a cyberattack, and the FCC plans to review the incident. Some cities warned residents to use other carriers for emergency calls, and Downdetector logged about 2.2 million outage reports in the last day.
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