Posted on 07/01/2015 9:51:51 AM PDT by MeganC
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —Service was restored late Tuesday night to all Wave Broadband customers in the greater Sacramento and Rocklin areas after a "deliberate act" caused a large outage, according to a Wave official.
"The disruption to service in the Sacramento Rocklin markets due to the fiber cut of several partner carrier providers has been resolved," read a statement on Wave's website. "As of about 11:40 p.m. Tuesday night, phone, TV and Internet services are operating normally."
The disruption to customers' phone, television and Internet services lasted nearly 20 hours as crews worked to repair fibers that were cut early Tuesday morning.
Wave Broadband issued a statement on its website about the outage:
"Three major fiber cables connecting the region have been physically severed in what appears to be a coordinated attack on multiple Internet carriers beginning at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday morning."
(Excerpt) Read more at kcra.com ...
Well that is the reason why I’m going to WAVE. AT & T is too expensive for me and I am unable to get that U-Verse here on my location. I’ll check out WAVE if I don’t like it I’ll go back to Earthlink DSL. Had no problems with Earthlink and was satisfy with internet.
Nope. Optical fiber cables, not “hard” cables. No copper involved.
I’ve had astound (a Wave subsidiary) service for years with excellent reliability.
... and we’re still down at this hour out here in the Diablo Valley (Concord, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek).
But did they know that before they started cutting. Thieves aren’t the brightest bulbs in the pack.
Old sarge...could i get on your list as well? Thanks
“Dose are nice optipical cables ya got theh. I would hate that sumting might should happen to ‘em. If ya know what I means. Now me an da boys heah can protect dose if ya lack.”.
When you get into a vault, you don’t have access to the length of cable you might think. Argues against it being guys out for copper.
I’ve seen guys put a lot of work into getting a very small amount of copper. I’ve also see them be total idiots and cut the copper out and leave it taking cheaper metals. Stupid thieves seems a lot more plausible that terrorist plot to me. Terrorists are out for blood, big showy displays of parts, not minor inconveniences.
My ISP has been out of commission all day and has thousands of customers in my area. This ain’t small-time crime, here.
It’s not small time crime. But it ain’t terrorism either. And honestly, getting disconnected from the world isn’t that big a deal. My cable (which is also my ISP) got jacked up to start the new year. Missed the Winter Classic which was kind of a bummer, got a lot of reading done though.
The talking head was wrong. I didn’t want to post a USA today story (heck Gannett owns AZ Republic also).
The line was buried, in the desert, and whomever did it had to have equipment to dig up the line.
They had to use some type of heavy equipment to dig it up, then supposedly used a “hacksaw”. I haven’t seen an update. Interesting how it went down the memory hole and local MSM haven’t done any updates that I have seen.
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/28202261/outage-halts-internet-cell-service-in-northern-arizona
Was Rio Linda affected?
(ducking)
I apologize for the Gannett article with the Channel 12 talking head. Not much “news” comes from Gannett. I have posted links with better info.
“They said they don’t know when the police are going to investigate. And we don’t really know what’s going to happen, basically,” said customer Rokky Medina, of West Sacramento.
Don’t hold your breath on the fuzz doing anything. Here in
Houston they won’t investigate unless the victim is another
cop or in some cases bodily harm.
Think it was last week Charter’s customers lost service in TN and NC. Seems like some were without service for 24 hours or more. Comments made by customer said a major line had been damaged.
Strange to have so many major outages happening across the U.S. Maybe a tech person here can explain how this could happen and be normal.
Well, for residential customers to be offline isn’t a great tragedy, but all of the businesses that are disrupted gets to be a sizeable economic hit that truly damages individuals and communities. I’m withholding any designation of “terrorism” pending some revelation of perpetrators and/or motives. Just as likely to be ELF-type eco-freaks, IMO. All conjectural at this point, of course.
The outage is a threat to some crucial, personal business though; being without my home email will become untenable in the next 12 to 24hrs.
Not cool..Knew where to dig!!
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