About 14,000 western Iowa customers of Iowa Telecom lost interexc...
About 14,000 western Iowa customers of Iowa Telecom lost interexchange access for several hours last Thurs. after a state highway construction crew in Pottwattamie County severed a Qwest fiber cable that Iowa Telecom was leasing as a temporary replacement…
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for a cable lost to flooding several weeks ago. Service was restored by Thurs. evening. The outage knocked out long distance and Internet access in 20 exchanges, along with 911 service in some of these exchanges. Local numbers still worked.