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Cable break hits Hawaii Internet, phone, cable TV<BR>
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Some 400,000 Oceanic Time Warner Cable customers in Hawaii suffered temporary Internet, phone and cable television outages Tuesday because of a break in a deep water undersea fiber-optic cable in the Molokai Channel.<BR>
The service that was lost at about 1 a.m. Tuesday was restored on Oahu and Kauai about two hours later, while service was back up on Maui and the Big Island by Tuesday afternoon, the company said.<BR>
Repairs to the cable, about 3,000 feet below the ocean's surface, will have to wait until a cable-laying ship arrives in three weeks, Oceanic Vice President Norman Santos said. The company didn't expect to learn the cause of the problem until then, he said.<BR>
The cable leased by Oceanic and other companies is owned by TW Telecom Inc.<BR>
Meanwhile, Maui County officials reported its office phones with the prefix 270 were expected to be back in service by Wednesday morning. The county's service provider is Wavecom Solutions.<BR>
Hawaiian Telcom, Hawaii's largest telephone company, said it wasn't affected by the outage.<BR>
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Source : <A href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H84K600.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H84K600.htm</A><BR> </body>
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