Many Verizon Wireless customers in the New York City area had data service outages on their phones, Wednesday morning. The attached image from downdetector.com shows the area that was affected.

WABC says they spoke with a Verizon spokesperson which gave the following statement:

“We started experiencing intermittent data outages a little after 7:30 this morning in Midtown and Upper Manhattan, the Bronx, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties. Service began restoring at 9am and we are back to normal service levels. A hardware failure is suspected as the culprit. We’re doing a full investigation.”

(Chaim Shapiro – YWN)