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To: Mark Johnson who wrote (3464)	11/13/1998 5:00:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (1) of 11568

Cable cut severs MCI Worldcom service By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM November 13, 1998, 4:40 p.m. ET A cut in MCI Worldcom's fiber optic network threw the company's long distance service into disarray this afternoon. Users trying to make long distance telephone calls faced intermittent service on the company's network. Many attempts to call out elicited only dead air or a message saying the network was busy. A customer service representative for the company said workers on a water main project in Fruit Heights, Utah had severed one of MCI's fiber cables. The outage affected calls going in and out of West Coast states, she said. The outage was bad enough that some MCI operators were recommending that customers use another long distance service until the problem was fixed. At mid-day today, the company said it was trying to reroute traffic as efficiently as possible, but did not have an estimated time for fixing the problem.

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