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Spectrum Customers In Forest Hills Lose Service As Vandals Strike Again, Provider Says
Vandals had caused an earlier outage on June 26.
FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — Spectrum customers in Forest Hills lost TV, internet and phone services Tuesday morning, a Charter spokesman told Patch.
The outage was caused by vandals who damaged the fiber optic cables, the provider said. Crews were still working to repair the damage at 4 p.m.
“Our crews are on site and working to repair fiber optic cables damaged by vandalism, which is affecting TV, internet and phone services for Spectrum customers in central Queens," Charter spokesman said.
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"We appreciate our customers’ patience while we restore service as quickly as possible.”
Central Queens customers, we have crews onsite working to repair a vandalized fiber optic cable and hope to have svcs restored ASAP. Thanks.
— Ask Spectrum (@Ask_Spectrum) July 11, 2017
Nearly 60,000 Spectrum customers in Central Queens lost TV, internet and phone services June 26 after vandals cut fiber optic cables.
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