GARNETT — Many of the recent Internet outages experienced by Century Link customers in Anderson County since the first of the year have been blamed by the company on construction crews cutting through fiber-optic and copper lines. The company told the Anderson County Rreview that most outages, including last week’s, could have been avoided with a phone call. Last week’s outage much of eastern Kansas including Anderson and Franklin counties was caused when a road construction crew on U.S. 56 near Baldwin City cut through a fiber optic cable, the company. Internet and some phone service was knocked out for about four to five hours. Anyone who is planning to dig or excavate land as part of a construction project should call Kansas One-Call at 811. The system will ask callers about their location, and send a professional locator to the property to mark underground utility lines.
Wednesday, Aug. 7, 4 p.m.
