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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Definitely not the result of the union playing hardball in their negotiations…</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Outages [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Damian Menscher via Outages<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 21, 2016 1:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> chris<br>
<b>Cc:</b> outages@outages.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [outages] Verizon Issues?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:30 AM, chris via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone aware of any known outages/issues for FIOS? Have a handful of customers in northern NJ with business FIOS with 50%+ packet loss on all verizon hops. We have checked these customers and theres no congestion on their networks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We're aware of the Verizon strike in progress and wondering if maybe some repair or maintenance is not being done because of the strike?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">...or possibly worse: <a href="http://www.verizon.com/about/news/criminals-put-thousands-verizon-customers-out-service-cutting-cables-and-damaging-network">http://www.verizon.com/about/news/criminals-put-thousands-verizon-customers-out-service-cutting-cables-and-damaging-network</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Damian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone from VZ has ability to dig deeper or if anyone else is seeing similar issues would be good to hear.<o:p></o:p></p>
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