Cox Communications customers began reporting problems with their internet, TV and phone service in the early hours of Thursday, according to outage-tracking service Downdetector, in what appeared to be a developing overnight disruption affecting the cable provider's network.

Downdetector said user reports indicating problems with Cox began climbing at 12:42 a.m. Eastern time. The tracking service posted about the rising number of reports on its official account on the social platform X, asking affected users to describe how the outage was impacting them and tagging the post with the hashtag "CoxDown."

As of Thursday morning, Cox had not issued a detailed public statement addressing the scope, cause or expected resolution timeline for the reported disruption. Separate outage-tracking service StatusGator showed Cox Communications as operational in data collected the previous afternoon, logging only a small number of user-submitted reports over the preceding 24-hour window, though that data predated the overnight spike in complaints flagged by Downdetector, leaving the true scope of Thursday's early-morning disruption difficult to independently confirm using publicly available tracking tools alone.

Cox does not offer customers a direct way to report outages through its own website, according to consumer guidance........

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