No cell service? 7-14 & 7-15, 2020

[Wrightwood]

Laura Kellerman Zuber?

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The person who vandalized UIA's line and cut Verizon lines has been reported to be walking around town with some kind of cutters. If you see him, please call 911 and report. The sheriff is up here investigating the vandalism complaint, but we need to be fly buzzing around their face. Pictures and video of him right now is helpful.

[sagespirit]

My first outage of UIA, hence my computer, was around 2am. At the same time, my Sprint cell went down, announcing it was "looking for service." No voice or text available. I strongly suspected it was directly related to whatever was causing the UIA outage. People I consulted blamed my old phone.
When UIA came back online the first time, my phone was still out of service. This aft, when UIA came back online w/full power, my Sprint cell phone went back to normal operations. Whew!!
It is very disconcerting/frightening to have our communication system so vulnerable. Thank you, UIA, for getting to this so quickly and, yes, we need to be alert at all times re: the culprit. These actions can endanger all our lives.
Thanks, Laura, for posting here as well. I'm not on FB.
Keep safe, everyone. Sagespirit   

[Wrightwood]

[lwt42]

It is very disconcerting/frightening to have our communication system so vulnerable. Thank you, UIA, for getting to this so quickly and, yes, we need to be alert at all times re: the culprit. These actions can endanger all our lives.

Spectrum went to the expense to pull a big fat bundle of fiber, with lots of extra capacity, which they then sell to others.

We can only find out how many independent services are in that fiber when it's damaged somehow.

It says a lot about UIA having a backup feed so they can switch over.

It says even more that AT&T, SPRINT, T-MOBILE and VERIZON don't have a backup.

I have a (very cheap) VoIP line just in case the cells go down (like they did during the 31 hour power outage), and it may be worth it to some to get an amateur radio license, just in case everything goes down.