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Is your phone not working? Verizon overnight outage affecting customers in Miami-area

A file photo of the Verizon logo.
A file photo of the Verizon logo. AP

UPDATE: Verizon said the cut fiber was fixed and all service was restored by noon.

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Verizon users in Miami-Dade County are experiencing service interruptions Thursday morning due to an outage involving a cut fiber, the company confirmed.

The outage is affecting users around Hialeah, extending south to Kendall and Homestead, Verizon told the Miami Herald in an email. People who use Verizon’s services on their cellphones, for example, are receiving “call failed” messages when trying to make phone calls. Verizon said the fiber was cut by overnight construction.

“Our engineers are aware of this issue and are onsite working with our vendor partners and local crews to resolve this issue quickly,” Verizon said in a statement.

During the peak of the outage, outage tracking website Downdetector.com reported that more than 2,000 users were experiencing issues with Verizon, according to Reuters, which first reported on the outage.

Down Detector, the outage tracking website, at 11:35 a.m. showed about 403 users in the Miami-area were reporting issues with their Verizon service.

Verizon customers can sign into their account online to check for service outage and repair updates.

This story was originally published August 11, 2022 at 11:39 AM.

Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription
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