---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <ndoust$efi$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:21:33 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Contractor: Miscommunication caused CenturyLink outage (This report is from March 11) A construction company working on the Route 29 Solutions project said miscommunication was to blame for a broken CenturyLink service cable. On Monday, phone and Internet services for parts of the Charlottesville region were interrupted after a crew with Lane-Corman accidentally cut an underground cable near U.S. 29 and Rio Road that carries telephone and data for CenturyLink customers. On Friday, the company said that there was a miscommunication in identifying abandoned utilities. The company said it has implemented a process to prevent a similar incident from recurring. http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/contractor-miscommunication-caused-centurylink-outage/article_572fec86-9b77-588a-be88-c686d4b5ccfd.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <ndou1f$b6a$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:06:54 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Frontier rings in Verizon takeover by borking its network Handover doesn't appear to be going particularly well in three US states 1 Apr 2016 at 18:27, Shaun Nichols Frontier Communications says that problems related to its takeover of Verizon's internet service led to outages across the three most populous states in the country yesterday. The company told The Register that errors related to the handover caused a failure early this morning in California, Texas and Florida. Making matters worse in Florida, a severed cable further complicated matters. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/01/frontier_borks_its_network/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <ndot7o$7ba$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 12:53:12 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: On day of Verizon's switch to Frontier, Texas customers finding frustrating fails By Jeffrey Weiss As anybody who has changed computers or service companies knows, the switchover can be ugly. Frontier Communication's newest customers are having a particularly ugly day. And it's not a April Fools joke. Today is the day that the 2015 sale of Verizon to Frontier became real for current Verizon customers in Texas, Florida and California. (Wireless services not included.) Nationally, the switchover involves about 3.7 million customers. About a million of them are in Texas. http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2016/04/frontier-communications-having-massive-fails-with-former-verizon-customers.html/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <ndoubs$b6a$2@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:12:29 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink seeks permission to shutter wholesale busy line services Last request for Busy Line verification or interrupt came in 2010 April 1, 2016 | By Sean Buckley CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has asked the FCC for permission to shut down its wholesale interstate Busy Line Verification (BLV) and Busy Line Interrupt (BLI) operator services in its legacy CenturyTel territory, saying there's no demand for the services. Through its wholesale partner AT&T, CenturyLink offered BLV and BLI operator services in Alabama and Missouri. http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/centurylink-seeks-permission-shutter-wholesale-busy-line-services/2016-04-01 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <ndotpb$a5v$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 13:02:33 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Outages occur as Frontier takes over Verizon service in Tampa area By Jerome R. Stockfisch TAMPA - Frontier Communications hoped for a "seamless and unnoticeable" transition when it took over Verizon's landline, cable and Internet service on Friday. It didn't work out that way. http://www.tbo.com/news/business/outages-occur-as-frontier-takes-over-verizon-service-in-tampa-area-20160401/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 03 Apr 2016