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VIRTUALISATION SF Bay Area Internet, phone outage called sabotage
VIRTUALISATION SF Bay Area Internet, phone outage called sabotage | SF Bay Area Internet, phone outage called sabotage |
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| by Jake Widman | |
| Saturday, 11 April 2009 | |
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Businesses were unable to process credit and bank cards, and ATMs stopped working. Residents had no way to contact emergency services, and some people ended up being driven to hospitals because they could not reach an ambulance. And even cell phones didn't work, because most cell phone traffic is carried by wire at some point. It turned out that the lines were out because someone climbed into a manhole in south San Jose and cut through AT&T's fiber-optic cables. Cables were also cut in three other nearby locations, but those cuts apparently didn't affect service. CONTINUED Page 2 |
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