[Outages-discussion] [outages] Oceanic: Severed Underwater Cable Caused Outage

[Frank Bulk - iName.com]

Maybe a few outages members could subscribe to Google alerts, and then post
it if it's relevant.  I think I'll do that now.

Frank

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From: virendra rode [mailto:virendra.rode at outages.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:10 AM
To: frnkblk at iname.com
Cc: outages-discussion at outages.org
Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] [outages] Oceanic: Severed Underwater
Cable Caused Outage

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Frank,

Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:
> How is it that media gets the information before this list does?  
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas how we could get access to a news feed which we
> could filter for key words?  Do we need to subscribe to a "Google News"
> search?
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I've toyed around with google alerts. The problem with this is, it
generates whole bunch of alerts including false positives which will
create unnecessary noise.


regards,
/virendra

> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On
> Behalf Of Paul Ferguson
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:10 AM
> To: outages at outages.org
> Subject: [outages] Oceanic: Severed Underwater Cable Caused Outage
> 
> Being on vacation on Maui, I hardly even noticed the outage until I heard
> about it later this evening. :-)
> 
> FYI:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> An Oceanic Time Warner Cable Internet service outage hit the entire state
> for hours on Tuesday.
> 
> Viewers from the Big Island and Maui reported problems receiving
television
> cable reception and/or phone calls on Tuesday morning. Oceanic Time Warner
> Cable said it had a problem with its fiber optic cable.
> 
> Oceanic Time Warner Cable Vice President Norman Santos said the cable
> between the islands was severed about 30 miles south of Kihei. The cable
is
> about 3,000 feet below sea level, Santos said.
> 
> The outage began at 1:10 a.m. Service was lost to Kauai and Oahu for about
> two hours, Oceanic said.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> More:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38433750
> 
> - ferg
> 
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