Is Starlink down? Tens of thousands of users report outages
According to outage detector Downdetector, reports of outages with Starlink began to spike around 3:24 p.m. ET with more than 57,000 reports. The problems continued to arise with a peak of more than 58,000 reports at around 3:39 p.m. ET.
As of 4:01 p.m. ET, reports dropped slightly, with only about 34,000 reports being logged to the website.
The outage was confirmed by Starlink in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
'Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is resolved,' the company said.
This is a developing story.
Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at fernando.cervantes@gannett.com and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Starlink outage: Thousands report problems using service
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