Impact of Verizon’s September 30 outage on Internet traffic

On September 30, 2024, Verizon’s mobile network (AS6167) experienced a multi-city outage primarily impacting voice services, while HTTP request volumes showed modest declines beginning around 11:00 ET and reaching about 9% below expected levels by 13:45 ET (with Omaha down ~30% vs. prior week and several cities seeing 10–20% dips). Traffic began recovering around 17:00 ET, returned to expected levels by ~17:15 ET, and was reported fully restored by 19:18 ET, with New York and Atlanta trending above prior-week baselines and no root cause disclosed at the time.