According to the article, the cut was somewhere near the intersection of New River Road and Circle Mountain Road in New River, AZ. Not way out away from any roads.
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