<p>Zoom is experiencing partial outages during the first day of school for thousands of students who are relying on the video conferencing technology to connect with educators.</p>.<p>The company said on Monday that it began receiving reports of disruptions around 9 am Eastern time. It has identified the issue causing the problem and is working on a fix, it reported on its status page.</p>.<p>Grade schools, high schools and universities are relying on Zoom and competing technologies like Microsoft Teams to reduce the chance of infection during the pandemic.</p>.<p>Technical issues are occurring across the US, with the most reports on the East Coast, as well as in Europe, according to downdetector.com, which monitors self-reported outages.</p>.<p>Zoom Video Communications became a familiar tool to millions of new users after the spread of Covid-19 made face-to-face meetings risky. It now has about 300 million users.</p>.<p>It suffered some growing pains during the early months of the pandemic, such as "zoombombers" who crashed meetings, but successfully went public in April. </p>
<p>Zoom is experiencing partial outages during the first day of school for thousands of students who are relying on the video conferencing technology to connect with educators.</p>.<p>The company said on Monday that it began receiving reports of disruptions around 9 am Eastern time. It has identified the issue causing the problem and is working on a fix, it reported on its status page.</p>.<p>Grade schools, high schools and universities are relying on Zoom and competing technologies like Microsoft Teams to reduce the chance of infection during the pandemic.</p>.<p>Technical issues are occurring across the US, with the most reports on the East Coast, as well as in Europe, according to downdetector.com, which monitors self-reported outages.</p>.<p>Zoom Video Communications became a familiar tool to millions of new users after the spread of Covid-19 made face-to-face meetings risky. It now has about 300 million users.</p>.<p>It suffered some growing pains during the early months of the pandemic, such as "zoombombers" who crashed meetings, but successfully went public in April. </p>