TMCnet Feature

If you are experiencing downloading issues via your Verizon LTE (News - Alert) device today, you are not alone as data outages have been reported in Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Verizon Wireless (News - Alert) customers across the country are utilizing social media and the company's support forums to complain about yet another nationwide 4G LTE outage, at least the fourth in the past three months. The network issues began early Wednesday morning and have since continued.

"VZW is investigating customer issues in connecting to the 4GLTE data network. 3G data, voice and text services are operating reliably,” the company stated on Twitter (News - Alert). 

Reportedly, in most cases, 3G appears to still be operational, but LTE service is down. Some Verizon users report poor signal quality, while others say they are without service at all. The service issues seem to be less common but still as widespread, disputing Verizon's claims that affected users still have service.

One user reports on Twitter from Los Angeles of little or no 3G service, while another reports that 3G data also went down in Ohio, but has since returned.

"There's nothing "reliable" about the 3G... Unless you count being slow and crappy", Steve from Florida tweets in response to Verizon's 4G problems.

Without knowing a cause, there is a major issue with Verizon's LTE network again. In December 2011, a similar problem occurred. A Verizon press release stated that customers’ 4GLTE experienced affected connectivity to the 4GLTE Network and data service. Verizon moved 4GLTE customers onto its 3G Network to ensure all would have a data connection. Just like now, for periods of time customers could not connect to the 3G Network as quickly as they would have liked.

Verizon stated that they are learning from these issues and applying the same gold standard to its 4GLTE Network that make its 3G Network the nation’s largest and most reliable.