Millions of Verizon customer in Northeast, including Virginia, experience outage, network fully restored [Video]

NORFOLK, Va. — Verizon has restored internet service after millions of customers reported issues on Tuesday.

The outage left millions of people without the internet. According to Downdetector, a spike in reports started shortly after midnight. 

Customers reported problems with 5G home internet, landline internet and total blackouts.

A Verizon representative says that the network has been fully restored.

“A network issue early this morning disrupted service for some Verizon Fios customers in the Northeast for a short period of time,” a Verizon spokesperson told 13News Now. “As soon as the issue was identified, our engineering teams quickly restored the service.”