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Internet Outage! Internet Down People Forced to Talk Face to Face

by Truemorist | October 2, 2009 at 02:03 pm

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Due to a major internet outage from Virgin Media and Verizon that affected everything from G-Mail to Blackberry users, people were forced to talk to each other face to face - it wasn't pretty.

Some people were offline for as long as 24 hours - just imagine how they struggled not to tweet what they thought about the 2016 Olympic bid or the fact that Chicago lost! Then they couldn't make a YouTube video about their feelings on the subject even though no one cares, and then they couldn't put it as their Facebook status so that all their friends could join in the collective misery. No wonder there were so many unhappy people on the streets today.

They said: "Power fluctuations at one of our facilities in Berkshire caused some customers in the local area to experience intermittent disruption to their services."

"It also affected the virginmedia.com website and some of our customers were temporarily unable to log into their email accounts," they added.

Although all seems to be back to normal now and blood pressure is lowering and if your internet hasn't come back on yet, it soon will.

How you would be reading this without internet though I don't know.

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A. Tran

at 17:46 on October 2nd, 2009

Well, the connection isn't great and it's still slow as molasses1

Tzitzikas (not verified)

at 04:27 on December 10th, 2009

Wednesday, Dec. 9... new outage for users of verizon phones and internet. No information from Verizon, no information on the news. Verizon site says it will be repaired "before" 10 days... What are consumers' rights?