Published: 16:07 EDT, 30 August 2025 | Updated: 16:43 EDT, 30 August 2025 Verizon experienced a nationwide outage this afternoon leaving tens of thousands customers across the United States unable to send texts or make calls. Reports of cell service outages began at around 12pm ET on Saturday, according to Down Detector.There were almost 24,000 outage reports catalogued on the site, which tracks interruptions of service for many different companies.Countless outraged customers said on socia...