India, Oct. 17 -- Was Verizon down on Friday? Thousands of users across the US reported losing mobile and internet coverage in the early hours of October 17. Frustrated customers scrambled to reboot routers and look for answers as Verizon outage hit major cities just after midnight, Newsweek reported.

As per data from Downdetector, Verizon outage reports surged from just over 80 on late Thursday night to more than 7,500 by 12:20 AM ET Friday, before slowly tapering off. By 3:30 AM, the number of complaints had dropped to around 314 - still well above the typical baseline of 29 for that time of night.

New York City, Boston, Washington D.C., Detroit, and Minneapolis saw the highest number of reports, as displayed on Downdetector's map. Us...