Widescale Verizon Wireless Outage Reported in New York, LA and Other Major Cities

There is a large Verizon outage affecting Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, at several cities in Michigan including Detroit. The cause of the outage is not currently known.

Problems have been reported in Wisconsin, Florida, South Dakota, Texas, Colorado, Louisiana , New Hampshire, Etc.

https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/news/419070-problems-at-verizon/

The reasons behind outages can range from bad weather to human errors and network changes. Weather can have a particularly bad effect on your mobile signal, as the heat, cold, rain and stormy conditions can disrupt telecom masts and kill your hopes of getting a signal.