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Daily Archives: September 20th, 2014

Redmond communications outage shows how vulnerable our critical infrastructure is

Excerpt: This morn­ing, at around at 9:30 AM Pacif­ic Day­light Time, a con­struc­tion crew work­ing on a stormwa­ter treat­ment project in NPI’s home­town of Red­mond, Wash­ing­ton acci­den­tal­ly caused a major telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions out­age for near­ly six thou­sand cus­tomers of Fron­tier Com­mu­ni­ca­tions (includ­ing yours tru­ly) when they dug in the wrong place and sev­ered vital fiber and cop­per wires. […]
Published at:6:06 PM on Saturday, September 20th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Policy Topics, Public Planning
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