Washington-Area Connectivity Outage Affects About 250 Companies
A "major carrier" was expected to have restored Internet connectivity service by 6:40 p.m. Friday to about 250 customer circuits in the Washington area after a hardware failure, an industry official said. "It’s a connectivity outage for one carrier." The…
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connection between the end-user's location and the carrier's network is out, he said. The expert declined to identify the carrier. "One connection could be three people, it could be 3,000 people. I have no idea," he said, referring to the scope of the problem: "And does this happen often? No, it doesn’t happen often. It’s very rare." The official believed mainly businesses were affected, saying most businesses have multiple connections to the Internet. "If this is their only connection, then they’re down," he said. An AT&T spokeswoman said the carrier's wireless service was working normally in the Washington area and it doesn't have wireline Internet operations. Verizon didn't comment Friday.