Local phone customers were disconnected from making out of town calls for nearly eight hours last Wednesday after a farmer near Panhandle cut a fiber optic cable.
The disruption affected more than 10,000 Valor Telecom customers in Clarendon, Hedley, Panhandle, Lakeview, Memphis, Groom, Claude, Wellington, and Estelline.
Valor crews began repairing the cable at 3:30 p.m. and had service restored by 11 p.m.
Last October, more than 8,000 Valor customers were disconnected for more than three hours when a crew with the City of Panhandle also cut a fiber optic cable.
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