Re: Telephones Out US West Coast?

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Armond Perretta" <newsgroupreader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:haadnYHZeK0dOMjeRVn-jA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> This morning my NextAlarm service was out for about 6 or 7 hours.  Neither
> my alarm nor my regular service could get through.  Later they came back
up
> with the story that telephone and Internet service was disrupted on the
West
> Coast and that the outage was beyond their control.
>
> This sounds like nonsense.  First, the "Internet" cannot be "out" in any
> particular region.  It's just doesn't function like that.  Second, I
cannot
> find a single mention of a disruption of telephone service in the US for
> this morning.

Actually it DOES function like that sometimes in fact a week ago a couple of
ISP/VOIP providers blocked access to various parts of the net for certain
areas of the country due to a billing dispute.