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10,000 Verizon phones dead in Midtown Manhattan

Thanks to Om Malik for bringing this to our attention.

Todd Venezia and Bill Gallagher write in The New York Post:

A major phone outage in Midtown has left thousands of people without dial tones, and a solution is still days away. Landlines, Internet access and fax machines for many Verizon customers in the area have been shut down since Tuesday after a fire melted cables inside a manhole at 38th Street and Madison Avenue.

Verizon, which doesn't know the cause of the fire, said yesterday that as many as 10,000 customers in both homes and businesses are still without landlines in the heart of the city.

posted by Fergie @ 10/10/2005 10:55:00 AM