[Outages] Pacific Northwest Storms Cut Wireless Service, Including 9-1-1

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via OregonLive.com.

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When storms washed out local phone networks up and down Oregon's coast
early Monday, some folks turned to their cell phones. Wireless service,
surely, could survive wind and water that blew down wires and washed out
cables.

Turns out, though, that even cellular carriers rely on cables to carry
their phone traffic from region to region. So the same floods that cut off
more than 20,000 phone lines from the outside world turned off many cell
phones, too.

Some coastal communities had phone service restored early Tuesday, but
calls still weren't getting through to areas of the north coast from
Astoria to at least Cannon Beach. Phone companies said they hoped to have
most service restored overnight.

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More:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/12/storms_slice_wireless_servi
ce.html

- - ferg

Sent: 19:35 PST, 4 Dec. 2007

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