Cable, home phone, and internet provider Spectrum is working with local police after its optic lines were severed in an act of alleged “criminal vandalism” that caused a widespread outage for customers in Los Angeles and Ventura counties on June 15, the company has confirmed.
“The investigation is ongoing,” Spectrum spokeswoman Pamela Hoeft told The Epoch Times on Monday. “We’re working with LAPD on that.”
A small number of people were still affected by the outage on June 16, but a vast majority of the service had been restored, she said.
On Sunday, more than 25,000 customers reported an outage on DownDetector.com, a website that tracks utility outages….