-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 More on this: [snip] SAN JOSE (CBS 5 / KCBS / AP / BCN) -- Vandals severed multiple fiber optic cables on Thursday, leaving thousands of people in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties without cell phone, Internet and landline service, police said. Crews were making repairs, but estimated that it would likely be sometime Thursday night before all service was restored. The outage which began about 2 a.m. affected both landlines and cellular phones for various AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile customers. San Jose Police Sgt. Ronnie Lopez, when asked whether the severed fiber optic cables were the work of vandals, said, "that's a pretty good premise." No arrests had yet been made, but police joined repair crews at the scene of the first four severed cables -- located ten feet down a manhole on Monterey Highway, north of Blossom Hill Road in San Jose. Authorities also found two other locations where fiber optic cables were similarly cut -- near Hayes Avenue and Cottle Road in San Jose, and in the 1700 block of Old County Road in San Carlos. Officials said the incidents were related and the police indicated all three locations were being treated as crime scenes. The FBI said while the sabotage acts were criminal, there was no evidence of terrorrism. [snip] More: http://cbs5.com/local/phone.internet.outage.2.980578.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj4DBQFJ3qPYq1pz9mNUZTMRAiMlAJ4ztuWURVpURUAbhfzweS/h/nyVCQCVFr+s a+KKWjnze77eqjkrbEB0kg== =+hA8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/