A widespread Verizon outage hit mobile phone customers across California and the U.S. on Monday, limiting some residents to emergency phone calls, so-called SOS mode. Downdetector, a website that crowd-sources reports of such disruptions, showed hundreds of customers in the Sacramento area began reporting outages around 7 a.m.

Exactly what the issues are, how many people they're affecting or when they might be resolved was not immediately known. The carrier says that the problems were unrelated to Hurri