Thousands of Qwest and Verizon customers in southwestern Colorado...
Thousands of Qwest and Verizon customers in southwestern Colorado lost Internet access and wireless service for six hours Monday when a Qwest fiber cable was cut northwest of Denver. The cut killed 32 Verizon cell sites in the Western…
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Slope region, with landline Internet access lost in all or part of Aspen, Cortez, Durango, La Plata, Vail, Montrose, Grand Junction and Telluride. The outage affected AT&T and T-Mobile wireless services in places where those companies lease space on affected Qwest cell towers or lease affected Qwest lines to connect their towers. The outage cut data service to local governments by severing a leg of the Colorado State Multiuse Network. Usually, landline voice service wasn’t affected, but some localities lost interexchange access and had to reroute landline 911 calls to adjacent communities not affected by the outage. Wireless 911 didn’t work at all in the area affected by the outage. Service went out around 6 a.m. but was fully restored by 2:20 p.m., Qwest said.