The Verizon outage affected thousands of people, especially in Denver

“Our engineers are committed and we are working quickly to resolve the issue,” USA TODAY spokeswoman Ilya Hemlin told USA TODAY on Monday.

Downdetector showed a peak of over 100,000 outage reports around 9 a.m. By 2 p.m., that number had dropped to about 50,000 and by 5 p.m. to less than 200.

Around 3 p.m. Monday, Verizon said in a post to X.com that it was beginning to restore service.

This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available. USA TODAY’s Natalie Neysa Alund contributed to this report.