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Still no official press statement from Verizon Wireless on its apparently still ongoing LTE service outage. The first big casualty of the problem appears to be the launch for Verizon’s second 4G LTE phone, the Samsung Droid Charge, which was supposed to go on sale today at stores and on the Verizon website. However the Droid page on the website still says “coming soon” as of Thursday morning, and no new updates from Verizon in regards to the LTE outage since a brief tweet on Wednesday saying:

We have determined cause of 4G LTE issue & are working with major vendors to restore connections. Details as they come.

More on this as we hear more but it is now 18 hours since the last update.

UPDATE, 8 a.m. PST: Apparently the service is working again. No official statement yet on the reason for the outage but a tweet from @verizonwireless says:

4G LTE up and running. Thank you for your patience.

UPDATE 2: We have just received official confirmation from Verizon PR that the Droid Charge launch is delayed with “more to come regarding an availability date.” For those who really, really really want a Droid Charge Verizon says customers “have the option of providing store representatives with
their contact information and they will be notified when the device is available for purchase.”

Still no word on why the LTE outage happened. Stay tuned!