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CenturyLink's Nationwide Outage Affects Millions

Posted by timothy on from the experiencing-seems-a-gentle-verb dept.

halfEvilTech writes "CenturyLink, the nation's third largest telco network, is experiencing an outage of its broadband service nationwide, leaving its support systems overwhelmed and even causing its website to hit a few snags this morning. The company, which at last count has 5.8 million broadband subscribers, has no estimates yet on how long it will take to restore service." CenturyLink is the company that will be providing the Defense Department with the equivalent of Internet2.

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  1. Re:Glad I switched to Comcast last year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Glad I switched to Comcast last year"

    Those aren't words heard very often...