Thousands cut off from phone service (land AND cell)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>
Date: April 9, 2009 12:22:46 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Thousands cut off from phone service (land AND cell)
Reply-To: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>


For IP:

Talk about having all eggs in one basket:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/09/BAP816VTE6.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea


Thousands of people in parts of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito
counties are without telephone service - both landline and cellular -
and will need to drive themselves to a hospital or a police or fire
station if they have an emergency, officials said.

The widespread outage began at about 2 a.m. as a result of a cut
fiber-optic cable belonging to AT&T, authorities said. AT&T and
Verizon customers in Gilroy, Morgan Hill may be among those affected.

Customers whose service is affected hear a fast busy signal or a
recorded message saying the network is unavailable.

There was no immediate explanation for how the AT&T cable was cut.




Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher,  The Internet Protocol Journal
Cisco Systems
Tel: +1 408-527-8972   Mobile: +1 415-370-4628
E-mail: ole () cisco com  URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj






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