According to reports service has largely been restored to a large number of Time Warner Cable customers after an early-morning outage Wednesday.

Business Insider reported the problem started around 3 a.m. ET, however a Time Warner spokesman, Bobby Amirshahi, told ABC the problem began at 4:30 a.m.

"As of 6 am ET services were largely restored as updates continue to bring all customers back online," he added.

The website DownDetector.com posted a chart showing that outage reports spiked to more than 9,000 at its peak this morning as reports came in from large cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Tampa.

Time Warner Cable is one of the largest cable providers in the U.S., serving about 14.5 million customers.

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