Crime & Safety
Aurora Police Department Impacted By Nationwide Cell Outages
Certain cell phone carriers are reporting a widespread outage impacting mobile-to-landline calls, Aurora police said Wednesday morning.
AURORA, IL — The Aurora Police Department is impacted by widespread cell outages Wednesday morning, officials said.
Mobile-to-landline calls are affected, resulting in callers receiving an “all circuits are busy” message when they attempt to call the department. If this happens when people need police assistance, they should call 911 instead, officials said in an alert.
Verizon Wireless is one of the impacted networks, Patch reported. Downdetector listed a massive spike in Verizon outages beginning around 6:42 a.m. Wednesday, peaking at 8:42 a.m. with more than 2,600 reported outages.
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Aurora police said they have no information on when the problem might be solved.
"About the outage, our engineers are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it quickly," Verizon Support said on Twitter in response to a customer comment.
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