Mobile-phone outage hits New York's outer borough

Iria · Aug 10, 2006, 09:33 PM

Source: ZDNet
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A water leak in a Verizon Communications telephone switching facility has knocked out service to Sprint Nextel customers in the New York City borough of Queens for much of Thursday, Verizon confirmed.

The leak damaged equipment in a central office facility owned by Verizon in New York. Equipment from mobile-phone provider Sprint Nextel is housed in this facility, which switches traffic between the cellular access network and the traditional phone network.

Aug 10, 2006, 09:33 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Mobile-phone outage hits New York's outer borough Source: ZDNet ________ A water leak in a Verizon Communications telephone switching facility has knocked out service to Sprint Nextel customers in the New York City borough of Queens for much of Thursday, Verizon confirmed. The leak damaged equipment in a central office facility owned by Verizon in New York. Equipment from mobile-phone provider Sprint Nextel is housed in this facility, which switches traffic between the cellular access network and the traditional phone network.