Vandals who slashed fiber-optic cables are being blamed for phone and internet service outages across Southern California’s high desert Sunday, according to officials. Officials for Spectrum, an ...

Millions of Verizon users faced temporary disruption after a fiber optic cable cut left customers without service across ...

While you're waiting on your internet service provider (ISP) to roll out fiber optic cable to your area for those sweet gigabit broadband speeds, maybe you should hope they tap into your phone line ...

(TNS) — Residents of several North Slope and Northwest Alaska communities have been experiencing Internet and cell service interruptions this week caused by a cut to the subsea fiber-optic network.

A Verizon spokesperson confirmed that the cause of the outage was indeed a severed fiber optic cable. Liz Geraldi, Senior Communications Manager for Verizon, noted that the company does not own the ...

ORONOCO — A 10,000-feet-long custom-made fiber optic cable was destroyed after thieves apparently believed they could retrieve copper from it. The Pine Island Telephone Company reported Monday that ...

According to police, the trio cut the fiber optic cables in an electrical room, which cut phone and internet service to the ...

Many miles off the western coast of the Americas, an undersea cable connects Los Angeles, California to Valparaiso, Chile. Stretched end-to-end, it’s equal to four-fifths of the Earth’s diameter. The ...