New York State Assembly member Anil Beephan called on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the hourslong service outage.

Verizon said it has resolved an hours-long outage that is believed to have left tens of thousands of US customers without access to voice and data services for much of Wednesday.

Verizon Communications customers throughout the U.S. experienced service disruptions Wednesday, the company said.The issue, which has lasted for several hours, has impacted wireless voice and data services for some customers,

Thousands of cell phone users reported a service outage on Wednesday morning, and the issue appears to be affecting a wide array of providers.

In short, when you see SOS on your phone, it means you're not connected to a cellular network. "If you see SOS or 'SOS only' in the status bar, your device isn't connected to your cellular network, but you can still make emergency calls through other carrier networks," reads an Apple support page on the feature.

Hundreds of thousands of Verizon cell phone users are without service on Wednesday afternoon, the company said. As of 1 p.m. DownDetector.com had compiled 460,000 user-generated reports, indicating widespread failure of mobile voice and data services. Most of those affected appeared to be in the eastern half of the U.S.

If you're not a Verizon Wireless customer then congratulations: You're NOT one of the literal millions of people stuck without any cellphone service for the past four-plus hours. Verizon, one of the largest cellphone service providers in the country,