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Thousands cut off from phone service -- vandals
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:03:44 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Ari Ollikainen <ari () olteco com> Date: April 9, 2009 2:30:00 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Thousands cut off from phone service (land AND cell)Update: <http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/09/BAP816VTE6.DTL >
Phone service sabotaged for thousands Henry K. Lee,Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writers Thursday, April 9, 2009 Thousands of south Santa Clara County residents are wakin...(04-09) 11:20 PDT SAN JOSE -- Vandals cut four AT&T fiber-optic cables in San Jose early this morning, knocking out landline and cellular phone service and the Internet to thousands of residential customers and businesses in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, authorities said.
The fiber-optic cables were severed shortly before 1:30 a.m. along Monterey Highway north of Blossom Hill Road in south San Jose, police Sgt. Ronnie Lopez said.
Police used yellow tape to cordon off the area, which is near railroad tracks, as investigators and phone company workers descended into an underground vault where the cables are located.
"We're treating this as a crime scene," Lopez said. [...] ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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