A widespread internet outage affecting most of the country has reached Pitkin County and the valley as well as much of Colorado.
At approximately 1:54 a.m. MST, reports of internet outages were starting to come in from CenturyLink customers in a handful of states across the country, with the highest concentration coming from customers in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Within six hours, the outage had spread across most of the continental U.S., including Colorado.
CenturyLink is having issues since 03:54 AM ESThttps://t.co/AfS59RwNLi
RT if it’s down for you as well #centurylinkoutage pic.twitter.com/SBt1FinDLI— Outage.Report (@ReportOutage) December 27, 2018
As of 10:25 a.m., the outage has covered most areas of the country.
As the #centurylinkoutage hashtag goes viral, the internet service provider is not alone in today’s outage reports.
Verizon, DirecTV, Facebook, Instagram and Netflix have all reported widespread outages today. Xfinity also reported widespread outages, as of 10:27 a.m.
Verizon Wireless is having issues since 01:22 PM ESThttps://t.co/TQleUlsovc
RT if it’s down for you as well #verizonwirelessoutage pic.twitter.com/YpVHqVOn65— Outage.Report (@ReportOutage) December 27, 2018