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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Verizon Blames Vandalism For Outage

Up to 300 government, business, residential customers lose phone, internet service

The outage to telephone and DSL service affected state government offices, small businesses and residents, Verizon spokeswoman Sandra Arnette said. Service was expected to be restored by midday Friday, she said.
Arnette said the damage to equipment in an alley off West North Avenue near Pennsylvania Avenue was the first act of vandalism reported in Baltimore since Sunday, Aug. 7, when members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers began a strike after their contract expired, she said.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Grow up guys. I hope whoever did it gets caught and sent to prison. What if someone whose wire was cut had an emergency and couldn't make a call? Another strike against unions.

Anonymous said...

Just tell me what the difference is between unions and organized crime.

Anonymous said...

Looks like the unions are working hard to alienate the average Verizon customer, erode what little support they have and to "thug" themselves out of their jobs.

Unions are an anachronism that were useful in the past, but have now been effectively replaced with gov't agencies. They just need to go away.