August 11, 2006
Mobile phone outage hits N.Y. borough
A water leak in a Verizon phone switching facility has knocked out service to Sprint Nextel customers in the New York City borough of Queens for much of Thursday, reports Cnet news.
The leak damaged equipment in a central office facility owned by Verizon. Equipment from Sprint Nextel is housed in this facility, which switches traffic between the cellular access network and the traditional phone network. Equipment in the facility serves customers in most of Queens and parts of the borough of Brooklyn and on Long Island. The outage impacts only longtime Nextel customers, those using Sprint's PCS network are not affected by the outage.
Verizon is currently working to restore service, the spokeswoman said.
The outage is likely impacting some travelers at the city's major airports, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia, which are located in Queens.
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