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Verizon Outage Affects Thousands In Northern New Jersey

Service being restored to customers following a widespread outage earlier in the day.

Tens of thousands of Verizon customers in Newark and northern New Jersey are without service Monday because of a power issue with one of the utility company's central offices on William Street in Newark, according to a spokesman.

Lee Gierczynski, manager of Verizon media relations for New Jersey, said the problem started around 8 a.m. and is expected to be fixed by 2 p.m., when systems will "slowly be powered back on."

"Our technicians are on site, working to resolve the issue," he said. "It's not a commercial power problem, but it's a problem with regulating power coming into the facility."

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Gierczynski said the problem does affect 911 call centers and that those centers have switched to alternate numbers until the problem is fixed.

— Joshua Wilwohl

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