Yes, it wasn't exactly just BBN either, affected lots of providers... I believe it was MCI owned fiber. At least the DC one. Dunno about the Texas. Bill On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Andy McConnell wrote:

Curious - no one seemed to mention BBN Planet's "major" fiber cut yesterday. Their trouble system "shortcutted" calls to an automated message saying there were two major cuts in the Texas and Washington DC area. their ticket was #273439. As a BBN customer, we had trouble getting out of BBN all morning, and by early afternoon things were fine.

Did anyone on the list see this sort of trouble?

-Andy

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