Major outage in the Bay Area (AKA internet and phone fail)

[aleja]

As of this morning: There is a major telecommunications outage in the Bay Area of CA: Thousands of people and businesses in parts of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties are without telephone service, both landline and cellular, because of a cut fiber-optic cable, officials said.

No idea when it will be restored (hopefully soon?), but I

Comments

the outage

[3kitties]

Does this leave francisb out of touch?

Re: the outage

[aleja]

It did leave him out of touch for most of the day, but thankfully things have been mostly resolved (I edited the end of the post).