Since none of the usual suspects have noted it, I'll give a cursory nod to an ILEC (Verizon) fiber cut that happened mid-afternoon yesterday in Ashburn, VA. About a thousand POTS customers were down (including several OOB dialups of which I am aware in the Equinix facility in Ashburn), as well as some T1 and faster loops to Equinix and elsewhere in the immediate area. Outage was likely off the radar because despite the big concentration of connectivity in the affected area, the natural cost disadvantage of the ILEC meant that few circuits of consequence were riding that fiber. Service was resumed after approximately 12 hours. RFO given was that the fiber cut was caused by a commercial lawnmower. Humorous comments left as an exercise to the reader. ---Rob