A water pipe break in a Verizon’s toll switching office in Concor...
A water pipe break in a Verizon’s toll switching office in Concord, N.H., knocked out landline toll service across southern N.H. for over 3 hours at midday Mon. The disruption affected some local service and caused delays in completing…
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911 calls rerouted around the damaged switch, Verizon said. Local calls could be completed but toll and long distance calls couldn’t. The impact hit counties south of Concord 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.. Verizon said a water line to the air conditioning plant broke. Water leaked onto the tandem switch equipment, causing a shutdown. The problem didn’t affect Verizon cellphone service.