For most of yesterday afternoon, the Verizon wireless network in Raleigh, North Carolina was out of service.
I first notice that I could not make calls around 2 PM, and I assumed I'd forgotten to pay the bill, but a local radio station announced that Verizon's cellular network was out of order. I wasn't able to use my cell phone again untill after 5 PM.
Does anyone have more details on the outage?
Bill
Hi Bill, welcome to the area. The outage was caused by a construction crew inadvertently severing a Time-Warner Cable fiber line. That line was also used to provide backhaul service for various local Verizon towers.
Details at:
Bob Goudreau Cary, NC
Deja vu all over again - back in the 1970's, the IBM internal telephone network timeline from Poughkeepsie to Raleigh was wiped out for about a day by a backhoe!
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