Thousands in Minnesota Without Phone Service, Includes 911 Access
Via The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.
A fiber optic outage in Osseo shortly after noon Sunday quickly spread in the north and west metro, causing about 98,000 customers to lose some or all of their phone service.More here.
There were reports out of Carver and Hennepin counties that 911 service was down for some customers, but Colleen Floyd, a spokeswoman for telephone service provider Embarq, said that is still being investigated.
About 70,000 Embarq customers did not have a dial tone at all and an additional 28,000 could not make or receive long-distance calls, Floyd said. Embarq is a former division of Sprint.
posted by Fergie @ 9/02/2007 04:07:00 PM
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