SF Bay Area Internet, phone outage called sabotage

Jake Widman
Saturday, 11 April 2009 01:33

Business IT - Technology

AT&T reported (via Twitter) that the lines were back up on Friday morning.

The company tweeted about 7 AM Pacific time Friday that "Repairs to vandalized San Jose cables were completed overnight. Services are operating normally this morning."

It is still not known how the saboteurs knew which cables to cut and how to get to them.

AT&T spokesperson John Britton pointed out that there are "big, heavy covers over the manholes and special ways to get them off. There's a tool you use. And in this case someone obviously had access to that."

AT&T has offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible -- one spokesperson said it was the largest reward he'd seen in his 17 years with the company.