Verizon experienced an outage on Wednesday, with something reported 175,000 customers unable to use their devices.

In a comment to CNET, Verizon confirmed the disruption, saying, “Verizon’s engineering teams are continuing to resolve service disruptions today.

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The absurdity of phones made stuck in SOS mode. Although the outage is slowly starting to resolve, with some users restoring service to their phones, others claim Down detector that their phone briefly started working again, but then went back into SOS mode. User reports about Downdetector top over 180,000.

“I’ve heard people get service back but can’t make any calls or do anything, happened to me here in Tampa, back for 3 minutes then back to SOS,” wrote one commenter. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as CNET.)

A statement on Verizon’s website currently says, “Verizon is aware of an issue affecting wireless voice and data services for some customers. We are working to restore service as soon as possible.”