{"id":129129,"date":"2017-09-19T13:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129129"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T21:01:05","slug":"century-link-fiber-cut-by-eckelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129129","title":{"rendered":"Phone Service Restored after Fiber Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist tells CSiNewsNow.com that phone service to Jamestown and the area was restore at 1:25 -p.m., Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 8am Tuesday Sept 19, 2017, a contractor installing fiber for another phone company, cut an unlocated CenturyLink fiber, \u00a0west of Eckelson, ND along 33 St SE (old #10).<\/p>\n<p>[easyrotator]erc_37_1505832943[\/easyrotator]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Early pixs by CSi photographer as workers expose the cut fiber<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The cut disrupted some local telephone services for the Jamestown area, including long distance services into and out of Jamestown area.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Tuesday,Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist said as of 11-a.m. Tuesday 9-1-1 cell phone calls to the Stutsman County LEC Dispatch Center, were getting through.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Hornug with the state 9-1-1 system in Bismarck said that by noon on Tuesday, Jamestown land line 9-1-1 calls through Century Link\u00a0 will reach the Jamestown LEC Dispatch Center directly.<\/p>\n<p>A tech made a switch in Jamestown to by-pass the normal 9-1-1- call to Fargo and back to Jamestown, by routing the Jamestown Century Link land line 9-1-1 calls directly to the LEC, while the Century Link outage was in effect.<\/p>\n<p>CenturyLink\u2019s Market Development Manager, Rachel Woodman said Tuesday morning, &#8220;Technicians are dispatched and an investigation is underway,&#8221; Woodman said in an email. &#8220;We apologize for any inconvenience this creates for our customers and will provide updates as more information becomes available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist tells CSiNewsNow.com that phone service to Jamestown and the area was restore at 1:25 -p.m., Tuesday. Shortly after 8am Tuesday Sept 19, 2017, a contractor installing fiber for another phone company, cut an unlocated CenturyLink fiber, \u00a0west of Eckelson, ND along 33 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":129138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129129"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129179,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129129\/revisions\/129179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}