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Can’t text? Verizon is experiencing an outage on east coast

Unable to text? Verizon Wireless is experiencing an outage, concentrated along the east coast.

Author: Beth Baldauf

Published: 8:27 AM EDT March 12, 2019

Updated: 8:29 AM EDT March 12, 2019

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Unable to text this morning? Turns out Verizon is experiencing an outage, concentrated along the east coast.

While details are limited just now, Verizon Wireless confirmed the outage on twitter Tuesday morning.

We have confirmed there is a texting outage on the east coast. Our technicians a fully aware we have a ton of customers that are being effected, and we're working non-stop to get this matter resolved as soon as possible. *IXR 1/3
— Verizon Wireless CS (@VZWSupport) March 12, 2019

As of 8:15 a.m., the company says it is working diligently to resolve the issue but says “the estimated resolution time is unknown at this time.”