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Cable TV, Cable Internet and home telephone service was restored to about 17,000 WOW! cable customers in the Northwest suburbs who were without service for most of Monday after a fiber-optic line was severed by another telecommunications company. WOW! announced on their Facebook website at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday March 13, 2012 that service was restored [...]

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WOW! Digital Cable – High Speed Internet — Home Phone was affected by a major outage in Arlington Heights, Des Plaines, Glenview, Mount Prospect, Park Ridge and Prospect Heights starting about 11:45 a.m. Monday. A major fiber-optic line was cut at an intersection in Schaumburg that knocked out service to about 17,000 WOW! customers that [...]

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A message from RIM Founder and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis on the BlackBerry Service Outage. RIM founder and CEO released a YouTube service update announcing that service is being stabilized, but did not estimate when the service will be restored worlwide. Blackberry user received the following popup message on their smart phones when they tried to [...]

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Comcast customers in Arlington Heights, Chicago, Northern Illinois, Northwest Indiana, Southwest Michigan and Minnesota were affected by an issue with their DNS servers. The issue caused customer computers, laptops, iPads, iPhones operating via wireless routers, and wireless routers themselves to be unable to resolve a web address or domain name. People who typed in a [...]

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Chase Bank’s 16.5 million customers lost access to Internet banking Monday night and into Tuesday. The outage continued through Tuesday night and the nation’s second-largest bank still didn’t have Tuesday night an estimate as to when its problem, which it described as “technical,” would be fixed. Speculation about the cause of the problem was communicated [...]

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