A cut fiber optic line disrupted telephone service across the state Monday, including several Allen County institutions.
Affected were Allen County’s 911 dispatch center, Allen County Regional Hospital, Allen Community College and local AT&T customers.
The outage occurred after a Southeast Kansas farmer cut into a cable Monday afternoon while digging up ground to make a pond, said Allen County 911 director Angela Murphy. The incident did not occur in Allen County, she said.
The outage extended as far as Wichita and Salina.
Service was restored about 2:25 a.m. today.
While telephone service was unavailable to the hospital and community college, calls to Allen County’s 911 center were routed to dispatchers in Fort Scott. Pertinent information then was radioed to Allen County.
Cut fiber optic line disrupts phone service
