Many Verizon mobile users experienced a major service disruption on Wednesday afternoon, with customers reporting that their phones suddenly went into SOS mode.

Can you hear me now? Verizon on Wednesday said an outage is impacting both wireless voice and data services for some of its customers across the U.S.

Downdetector categorized the Verizon outage as "Very High," and the service received a peak of 140,850 error reports within a 15-minute window on Wednesday afternoon.