Mediacom Outage Strikes Much of the Midwest

(Undated) -- Internet, phone, and cable services are down for Mediacom customers across more than seven states. The widespread outages are affecting Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, and most of Iowa and Oklahoma.

Since 3:30 pm, at least 8,500 outages have been reported, according to downdetector.com. More than 95% of the reported problems were internet outages. 3% of customers reported a total blackout.

At 3:37 pm, @MediacomCable tweeted the following:

Those looking to report an outage can do so here.