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From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 04:23:01 -0500
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 19:25:24 EDT From: LESREEVES () delphi com Subject: Dog Days for Telephone Networks From August 23 to September 3 the nation's telephone network experienced five outages, according to the Network Reliability Steering Committee. On August 31, there were three outages, the most extensive affected 39,600 customers in Encinitas, California for just under ten hours. The other outages were the result of a blown fuse in Jersey City, New Jersey (Bell Atlantic) and a cable cut in Bangor, Maine (Nynex). On August 23 Southwestern Bell's Oklahoma City central tandem office failed due to a "software corruption in switch"; 50,000 customers lost service for three hours. A duplex interior bus failed in Ft. Washington, Pennsylvania, on August 25, affecting an unknown number of customers for 50 minutes.
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