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Wave Broadband service restored after 'deliberate act'
KCRA TV - Sacramento, California ^ | 7/1/2015 | David Bienick

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201507; broadband; california; fiberopticcable; fiberoptics; isolatedincidents; outages; rocklin; sabotage; sacramento; waronterror; watchman; wave; wavebroadband
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To: Mariner

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.


21 posted on 07/01/2015 11:14:13 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Moonman62
It is understandable that a lot of information has been omitted or vaguely phrased. The investigation is ongoing.
A disgruntled employee would have to be disgruntled at quite a few companies, over a wide area and over a considerable period of time.
If the motive to cut the fiber optic cables was to steal copper, then we have a better idea about the intelligence of the perp(s).
Taking out 20% of the coverage in the Sacramento region is not like 911, but more than chopped liver.
I do not see terrorism/terrorists being ruled out. They would seem to have a good reliable source with good and current maps, diagrams, and schematics.
It will be interesting to see how the investigation develops.
TWB
22 posted on 07/01/2015 11:49:14 AM PDT by TWhiteBear (Sarah Palin, the Flame of the North)
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To: discostu

Nope. Optical fiber cables, not “hard” cables. No copper involved.


23 posted on 07/01/2015 11:58:16 AM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: Mariner

I’ve had astound (a Wave subsidiary) service for years with excellent reliability.


24 posted on 07/01/2015 12:11:47 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: MeganC

... and we’re still down at this hour out here in the Diablo Valley (Concord, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek).


25 posted on 07/01/2015 12:15:27 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23

But did they know that before they started cutting. Thieves aren’t the brightest bulbs in the pack.


26 posted on 07/01/2015 12:22:02 PM PDT by discostu (In fact funk's as old as dirt)
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To: Old Sarge

Old sarge...could i get on your list as well? Thanks


27 posted on 07/01/2015 12:25:40 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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To: HKMk23

“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.”.


28 posted on 07/01/2015 12:26:28 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: discostu

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.


29 posted on 07/01/2015 12:28:30 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23

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.


30 posted on 07/01/2015 12:32:38 PM PDT by discostu (In fact funk's as old as dirt)
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To: discostu

My ISP has been out of commission all day and has thousands of customers in my area. This ain’t small-time crime, here.


31 posted on 07/01/2015 12:34:58 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23

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.


32 posted on 07/01/2015 12:38:23 PM PDT by discostu (In fact funk's as old as dirt)
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To: CGASMIA68

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.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/vandalism-in-arizona-shut-down-internet-cellphone-telephone-service-across-state/


33 posted on 07/01/2015 1:03:41 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: IYAS9YAS

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


34 posted on 07/01/2015 1:07:02 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: All

Was Rio Linda affected?

(ducking)


35 posted on 07/01/2015 1:08:02 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: CGASMIA68

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.


36 posted on 07/01/2015 1:08:42 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: MeganC

“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.


37 posted on 07/01/2015 1:24:59 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: MeganC

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.


38 posted on 07/01/2015 1:50:29 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: discostu

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.


39 posted on 07/01/2015 2:02:38 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: machogirl

Not cool..Knew where to dig!!


40 posted on 07/01/2015 2:10:47 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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