Verizon customers across swaths of the Northeast briefly lost their internet coverage early Tuesday. The outage reporting website Downdetector showed Verizon or Verizon Fios outages spiking to more than 50,

Millions of people on the East Coast experienced Verizon Fios internet outages in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The affected area, based on a map of user-reported problems on Downdetector, spans approximately 300 miles from Philadelphia,

Update: Verizon services have begun to come back online around 4 a.m. on Tuesday. A network issue early this morning disrupted service for some Verizon Fios customers in the Northeast for a short period of time.