Posted on 02/26/2015 8:00:39 AM PST by dware
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Officials say all services have been restored following act of vandalism that left people across northern Arizona without the use of the Internet, cellphones and landlines for several hours.
During Wednesday's outages, businesses couldn't process credit card transactions, ATMs didn't function, law enforcement databases were unavailable, and even weather reports were affected in an area stretching from north of Phoenix to Flagstaff, about 100 miles away.
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Prepper Ping...what would happen if the Internet disappeared?
People need to think a bit about this incident. Accident, sabotage or EMP could all have huge effects on our lives. Some would get along well and others would not.
Obama’s Illegals ?
How about that guy that parked his Truck on the Tracks in California Obama Illegal ?
I suspect wahhabi sunni isis.
Dry run #77.
To end last year and start this year my cable got jacked up, lost the outside world entirely, and not being a cellphone guy that was indeed ENTIRELY. I watched DVDs and read, it was nice.
Don’t they believe in redundancy? That huge an outage from a single cable fault is the result of seriously bad planning. Back in the early 1990s, when a construction crew accidentally cut a fibre cable, more than 100,000 calls were rerouted with no disruption of service.
What do you suppose the redundant fiber is in the same trench?
Tunnel diggers probably hit a cable.
Redundancy through the middle of nowhere (which we have a lot of in AZ) doesn’t really happen much. Too expensive, too difficult, not enough profit. Sure within a city there’s tons of redundancy, but in between cities, when there almost 150 miles worth of nothing but a national forest separating them, just doesn’t happen.
It was the FCC!
The FCC is about to show us.
Vandalism? Gee that don’t sound so bad....
We should be swapping emails. FR isn’t going to be around for much longer.
No doubt. We’ll be the “neutralized” in neutrality.
I can remember working on a outage that knocked out several states in the Midwest. It was due to a farmer using a backhoe to bury a dead cow.
If the internet disappeared, Algore would be deeply saddened and everyone under 30 would be curled up in a corner whimpering. Postal services would have to step up to the plate.
A frightening thought indeed, but I'm afraid you're right.
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