BATON ROUGE — Verizon customers across the country on Monday experienced issues accessing the service provider's wireless network, multiple news outlets report.

Around 62,000 outages were being reported as of 11:44 a.m., according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service outages.

Some phones experiencing service outages have switched over to SOS mode. This means the phone can still make emergency calls, such as 911, by connecting to other carriers, Apple's website notes.

Verizon is aware of the issue and said its "engineers are making progress on our network issue and service has started to be restored" in a release. 

Verizon engineers are making progress on our network issue and service has started to be restored. We know how much people rely on Verizon and apologize for any inconvenience some of our customers experienced today. We continue to work around the clock to fully resolve this…

— Verizon News (@VerizonNews) September 30, 2024