Verizon blames vandalism for service outages in Los Angeles County

Verizon said “acts of vandalism” were responsible for widespread service outages that affected customers around the world. Greater Los Angeles area on Friday.

Customers all over the United States, especially along West Coastexperienced a service outage on Friday morning, with several issues reported with mobile phone service and 5G home internet, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported.

“Earlier this morning, multiple fiber outages due to vandalism caused service outages Some clients “In greater Los Angeles County,” a Verizon spokesperson told FOX Business in an email.

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“These dangerous actions not only impact families, students and businesses, they pose a direct threat to the safety and security of Angelenos,” the spokesperson told FOX Business. “We know how much people rely on Verizon, and we are actively working with community leaders to find ways to stop this behavior.”

Reports of the outage began around 5:30 a.m. PT Friday, FOX 11 reported, citing outage tracking site DownDetector.

By about 9 a.m., a Verizon spokesperson spoke up The technicians said They have been working to restore service, and new outage reports appear to be slowing down. The outage marks the company’s second outage in as many days, according to FOX 11.

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Official spokesman Los Angeles County Police Department She told FOX 11 she is not aware of any active investigation.

From January through the end of August, 45,053 crimes were reported across the areas served by the Los Angeles County Police Department — down more than 10% from 49,498 during the same period last year, according to department statistics.

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Earlier this week, Verizon Communications named former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the telecommunications giant’s new CEO, succeeding Hans Vestberg in a move aimed at steering the company through a period of slowing wireless growth, according to Reuters.

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.