[Outages] Thousands in Minnesota Without Phone Service, Includes 911 Access

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.

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A fiber optic outage in Osseo shortly after noon Sunday quickly spread in
the north and west metro, causing about 98,000 customers to lose some or
all of their phone service.

There were reports out of Carver and Hennepin counties that 911 service was
down for some customers, but Colleen Floyd, a spokeswoman for telephone
service provider Embarq, said that is still being investigated.

About 70,000 Embarq customers did not have a dial tone at all and an
additional 28,000 could not make or receive long-distance calls, Floyd
said. Embarq is a former division of Sprint.

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More:
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1397905.html

- - ferg

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