LIGHTNING STRIKE LEAVES VERIZON USERS OFF HOOK.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Special to the Daily News LANCASTER -- Can you hear me now? Verizon customers in Lancaster were left asking that question after a power line in rural San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. County shared by the communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. and Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. was damaged by lightning shortly after 3 a.m. Wednesday. The power line in El Mirage near Victorville carried Verizon's fiber optic cable Noun 1. fiber optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light fibre optic cable transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power . In the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , 2,880 customers lost power briefly and 623 were without electricity until 3 p.m. Also, about 115,000 Southern California Edison customers, mostly residents of coastal regions, lost power for parts of the day. The phone outage caused an unspecified number of Verizon customers to lose wireless, land line and high-speed Internet service in a vast region from the Victor Valley to Mono County. The outage caused intermittent communications problems at the Lancaster sheriff's station Wednesday morning. Lancaster's 911 emergency calls were rerouted to other areas. Verizon spokesman Jon Davies said he was unable to estimate when the outage would be fixed. He said Southern California Edison had to repair structural damage to the power line before the fiber optic cable could be fixed. He said wireless customers were affected by the outage because their calls are transmitted from satellite towers to Verizon's fiber optic network, as is the company's DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary service. gideon.rubin@dailynews.com (661) 267-7802 |
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