Hawaiian Telcom Fiber Optic Cable Vandalized, Causes Outage

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KITV has this report. Excerpts:

Hawaiian Telcom says that one of its fiber optic cables was maliciously cut around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night, affecting services to some customers on Oahu.

The vandalism occurred in the vicinity of last Tuesday’s fire that burned cables belonging to Hawaiian Telcom and other service providers under the Airport Viaduct. …

Voice and data services of about 500 customers on Oahu were affected.  Hawaiian Telcom has been working throughout the night to repair the cable and reroute network traffic, and successfully restored service to the majority of customers by 1:45 a.m. …

—Chad Blair

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