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 Greg_ZPremium
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Springfield, IL | Actual reason of outage Severed cable hangs up phone service
COPLEY NEW SERVICE
Published Thursday, February 22, 2007
PEORIA - An AT&T fiber-optic cable accidentally cut near Joliet jammed phones in central Illinois Wednesday evening, officials said.
AT&T land lines and cell phones were affected, along with Nextel, Sprint, Verizon and U.S. Cellular cell phones because these companies apparently share routing lines with AT&T, local phone representatives said. The sporadic outages lasted from about 3 to 8 p.m., AT&T spokesman Chris Comes said, and stretched from the Metro East area to Joliet.
Comes said Wednesday evening he could not verify the cause of the outage.
But local law enforcement, including Peoria County Sheriff Mike McCoy and Creve Coeur Police Chief Michael Button, said they were told it was because of a cut cable in Joliet.
“Somehow a main line got cut,” Button said. “They’ve got a crew on it, and it’s supposed to be fixed relatively quickly because it’s an emergency line.”
Law enforcement reported people were able to call 911 from land lines, but not cell phones.
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Minneapolis, MN | Uh oh, the city has some 'splainin to do.
It would be ironic if it was a municipal crew that cut the cable, as is often the case with cable cuts. | |
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1 edit | Just lost Peoria....LOL expect Lily Tomlins Ernestine video to follow soon.... | |
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Fargo, ND | Re: Actual reason of outage Ok, I uploaded at putfile for everyones enjoyment.
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Actual reason of outage Uhhmm...The name of the demonstrator, wasn't "Gates" was it?
Young guy, glasses, computers always seem to explode in his face during demos? | |
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| Re: Actual reason of outage said by TScheisskopf:Uhhmm...The name of the demonstrator, wasn't "Gates" was it? Young guy, glasses, computers always seem to explode in his face during demos? No, I think that he was still in middle school at the time. PCs, MSDOS, and even CP/M (the first O/S for which Gates/Microsoft produced software) were years in the future.
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| Greg_ZPremium
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Springfield, IL
1 edit | Actually, we got calls today from clients that stated when trying to call downstate from Other areas that routed through Joliet yesterday, they where not able to complete the call.
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