Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber

coondoggie writes "Internet service providers in the US experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. TeliaSonera AB, which lost the northern leg of its US network to the cut, said that the outage began around 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday night. When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot up over a length of a kilometer. 'Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable,' said a TeliaSonera spokesman. The company declined to name the service provider whose lines had been cut, but a source familiar with the situation said the lines are owned by Level 3 Communications Inc. Level 3 could not be reached for comment."

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Re:Wait, wait, wait.

[Liinux]

Since when did Sonera operate in the US? Since quite a while back, TeliaSonera International Carrier has a massive worldwide backbone. You can get a map of it at their website:

http://www.teliasoneraic.com/tsicWeb/tsic/sectionM ainpage/begin.do?cid=2afc3cbd9546d010VgnVCM100000d 83ab183RCRD