Since July 2014, attackers have intentionally severed fiber optic cables in 11 places in the San Francisco Bay Area, causing interruptions in Internet, phone and television services in Alamo, Berkeley, Fremont, San Jose and Walnut Creek, California. SE Earthquake UPDATE, 4:45 PM Friday July 25, 2014 Mother Nature rattled Northern Southeast this morning with and magnitude 5. 9 earthquake and several dozen aftershocks. Reports say a construction crew working in the area cut a major fiber-optic line. Outage maps show a large swath from Sacramento to San Jose are facing. About 2,000 RCN internet and cable TV customers in Massachusetts lost their service for several hours Wednesday after a fiber optic cable was mistakenly cut during some digging on Kimble and Magazine Streets in Boston. The cable was cut around 7:45 a., which meant thousands of RCN customers. Time Warner Cable's 11. 4-million-customer broadband blackout was one of the largest to affect U.
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