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Verizon Wireless confirmed a significant outage impacting the carrier's billing system.

Company spokesperson Laura Merritt says the outages affect customers in the Northeast, Midwest and some southern states. "We are working on a fix," says Merritt.

Network services such as call, text and data are not impacted by the outages, says the company.

Several Verizon customers have taken to Twitter to complain about the outage. Using the hashtag #VerizonOutage, users say they lack access to their accounts, while some have said they do not have cell service.

Verizon has not confirmed the length of the outage, but some customers on Twitter say they've lacked access for over 24 hours.

As The Verge notes, affected users attempting to access their accounts online will receive a message saying some services are temporarily unavailable.

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