[outages] Vandalism of CenturyLink fibre in Arizona causes large outage footprint.

[joel jaeggli]

On 2/26/15 7:53 AM, Stephen Wilcox via Outages wrote:
> "According to Juarez, technicians from Monroe, Louisiana-based
> CenturyLink had to go through a long, tedious process of inspecting the
> line "mile by mile." Meanwhile, Flagstaff's 69,000 residents tried to go
> about their daily business."
> 
> So, northern Arizona is entirely single homed from a CenturyLink fiber,
> and CenturyLink technicians don't own an OTDR but in fact walk miles to
> find cuts?
> 
> Sounds more like CenturyLink made a huge mess up here and threw out some
> PR spin that the media believes is normal, vandals huh..

in the 2013 san jose cut, the cable was severed in two places, making
the distance to break different from both ends.

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> On 26 February 2015 at 15:30, Roland Dobbins via Outages
> <outages at outages.org <mailto:outages at outages.org>> wrote:
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>     <https://uk.news.yahoo.com/__police-probing-outage-cut-__internet-phones-arizona-__092936953.html
>     <https://uk.news.yahoo.com/police-probing-outage-cut-internet-phones-arizona-092936953.html>>
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