Hundreds of thousands of Verizon cell phone users are without service on Wednesday afternoon, the company said. As of 1 p.m. DownDetector.com had compiled 460,000 user-generated reports, indicating widespread failure of mobile voice and data services. Most of those affected appeared to be in the eastern half of the U.S.

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There were more than 130,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Verizon's services around 1:11 pm ET, according to Downdetector.