Internet, cellphone outage cuts knocks rural Arizona offline
PHOENIX (AP) — A telecommunications outage over the weekend left swaths of rural northeastern Arizona without internet or phone connections, knocking out credit card processors and easy access to emergency services.
The outage was caused by gunshots fired at a Frontier Communications fiber line on Saturday.
It left local officials in Navajo and Apache counties fuming about what they called a pattern of problems that leave people out of touch and potentially vulnerable.
A spokeswoman for Frontier says the company worked to restore service as quickly as possible.
Service returned to normal on Monday.
