Verizon customers may be facing another unexpected outage, as user reports on DownDetector began to spike today, May 5. According to the website — which tracks outages across popular services — problems started to appear at the carrier around 8:30 am ET. The number of complaints has started to steadily rise since then, with just over half the reports listing mobile cell service as the problem. Verizon outage live: Latest Updates Refresh 2026-05-05T15:04:03.041Z Are you affected by today's Verizon outage? According to Verizon, today's issues are focused around Western Pennsylvania, but it's likely that many more regions are affected. If you're currently experiencing issues, let us know in the poll above and feel free to add to the comments section below this article. 2026-05-05T14:54:08.621Z Reports are holding steady (Image credit: DownDetector) According to the latest information from DownDetector, the reports have plateaued at just past 1,000 for the last 30 minutes or so.…