Sept 30 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications' ( VZ )

mobile network was down for thousands of users in the United

States on Monday, according to outage tracking website

Downdetector.com.

There were more than 100,000 incidents of people reporting

issues with the telecom operator's services, according to

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports

from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its

platform.

The outages, which began at around 9:30 a.m. ET, were

reported from locations, including Chicago, Indianapolis, and

Minneapolis, Downdetector said.

Some Verizon users said on social media platform X that

their phones were stuck in "SOS" mode.

"SOS" appears in the status bars of iPhones if the

device is not connected to a cellular network but can still make

emergency calls through other carriers, according to Apple's

website.

Verizon did not immediately respond to a request for

comment.

(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese and Aditya Soni in

Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Tasim Zahid)