East Texas Verizon Service Disruption Blamed on Damaged Fiber Optic Cable

Verizon customers in East Texas experienced a service disruption after an "equipment issue" occurred Monday afternoon, a Verizon spokeswoman said. A damaged or cut fiber optic cable caused the outage, she said, and Verizon is still investigating how that damage occurred. The telco restored service to all affected customers just after 8 p.m. Monday, she said. The company did not provide numbers on how many subscribers were affected.