TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Fiber Cut Knock Rural S.E. Kansas Off Line


Fiber Cut Knock Rural S.E. Kansas Off Line


TELECOM Digest Editor (ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu)
Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:06:05 EST

A fiber got cut by a clumsy contractor with a backhoe early Thursday
in Parsons, KS which knocked all of rural s.e. Kansas as served by
cableone.net off line. This cut included TELECOM Digest. Right now I
am working off of our back up modem dial up line using TerraWorld.
Cableone is aware of the problem and they estimate it will be six to
eight hours in repair. The contractor just shrugged his shoulders and
acted like he did not know what he had done. "He'll shrug his
shoulders alright when he gets the repair bill, noted a technician
from Cableone.net in Phoenix, AZ where the cableone technical center
is located. In the meantime, your editor has to limp along with a very
slow dial up connection, meaning today's issue of the Digest will be
sort of skimpy. You'll get what I had available when the fiber got cut;
the rest will sit in the mailox until perhaps later tonight when they
estimate repairs will be finished.

PAT

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