CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Spectrum reported an outage that affected customers in the Carolinas Thursday after customers began complaining that their internet service stopped working.
"We are unable to offer an estimated time of repair, but crews are working to restore services as quickly as possible," the company said on its official support channel. "We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience."
Calls into the WCNC Charlotte newsroom indicated the cable company was having issues with Internet service in the Charlotte area. A message into the Spectrum app, confirmed to customers there was at least an issue impacting the Spectrum TV app.
Downdetector.com, a third-party website that crowdsources messages about outages Internetwide, listed Spectrum as its top outage Thursday afternoon. The website denoted an uptick in outages starting around 2 p.m. Thursday. Outage reports decreased significantly by Friday morning but Spectrum hasn't provided an official update on its support channels.
Customers took to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, to ask Spectrum for updates.
WCNC Charlotte viewers who watch the channel via Spectrum, can continue to watch WCNC for free over the air with an antenna. All our local newscasts also stream on WCNC+, which can be streamed online.
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