Verizon has confirmed that its cell service is beginning to come back online following a massive outage affecting some of its mobile phone customers.

The still unexplained Verizon outage affected more than 100,000 users, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks tech outages.

As of 12:00 p.m. ET, DownDetector (a site that shares the same parent company as Mashable) shows that there have been over 100,000 reports of Verizon outages. Fifty-one percent say that the issue involves their mobile phone, 35 percent say they're not getting any signals, and 14 percent say they're experiencing a total blackout.