Crews working Friday to restore internet, phone service to several Utah schools hit by outage after cable cut [telecom]

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By Marjorie Cortez

DRAPER - CenturyLink crews continued to work Friday to restore internet service lost when fiber was damaged during utility construction in Draper.

The damage, which occurred about 1 p.m. on Thursday, resulted in "extensive damage" to fiber, according to the Utah Education and Telehealth Network website, a CenturyLink customer. Three Salt Lake County school districts and multiple public charter schools were affected by the outage.