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Millions of users have been hit by a mass internet outage affecting Verizon Fios coverage on the east coast.
Reports of outages flared between midnight and 2am EST, prompting rife complaints on social media.
A spokesperson for Verizon, responding to a user from Ashburn, Virginia, confirmed: ‘There is either an outage or network maintenance impacting your area. We dont have full details just yet.
‘Our apologies for any inconvenience this is causing. We’re trying to get all the information from our network team so we can provide you all an update.’
More than 40,000 instances were reported early this morning, up from fewer than 100 before the spike.
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Alexandria and Washington were among the most reported locations.
Down Detector showed a spike in reports of outages along the east coast this morning
To fix issues with your service, Verizon advises rebooting your router and resetting your ONT battery in the first instance.
DailyMail.com contacted Verizon for comment.
