Thousands cut off from phone service -- vandals

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ari Ollikainen <ari () olteco com>
Date: April 9, 2009 2:30:00 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Thousands cut off from phone service (land AND cell)


Update: <http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/09/BAP816VTE6.DTL 
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Phone service sabotaged for thousands

Henry K. Lee,Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writers

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Thousands of south Santa Clara County residents are wakin...

(04-09) 11:20 PDT SAN JOSE -- Vandals cut four AT&T fiber-optic cables  
in San Jose early this morning, knocking out landline and cellular  
phone service and the Internet to thousands of residential customers  
and businesses in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties,  
authorities said.

The fiber-optic cables were severed shortly before 1:30 a.m. along  
Monterey Highway north of Blossom Hill Road in south San Jose, police  
Sgt. Ronnie Lopez said.

Police used yellow tape to cordon off the area, which is near railroad  
tracks, as investigators and phone company workers descended into an  
underground vault where the cables are located.

"We're treating this as a crime scene," Lopez said.

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