The company says the Verizon phone outage was resolved after a “brief service interruption.”

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A Verizon outage affecting thousands of customers across the U.S. was reported Monday morning, according to DownDetector.

More than 7,000 customers had reported problems as of 8:30 a.m. ET, the online outage tracker showed.

Verizon, for its part, confirmed to FOX Television Stations that some stations experienced a “brief service interruption” and that the issue had been resolved.

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Verizon call “unable to complete as dialed”

Many of the reported issues, according to DownDetector, involved cell phone service – leaving customers unable to make calls or send text messages.

Some customers reported receiving the following message: “Welcome to Verizon Wireless, your call cannot be completed as dialed.”

The U.S. cities with the most commonly reported problems include New York City, Phoenix, Chicago, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Indianapolis and Cincinnati, DownDetector's outage map shows.

A Verizon spokesperson told FOX Television Stations in a statement that the outage only lasted “a few minutes.”

“Some Verizon Wireless customers experienced a brief service interruption while making landline calls this morning,” the statement said. “The outage lasted a few minutes and has now been resolved.”

It was the second reported Verizon outage in recent weeks. A major outage occurred on September 30th.