SBC Customers Cut Off From The Internet

NEW HAVEN (AP) — Connecticut customers who use SBC Communications to reach the Internet were cut off from the World Wide Web much of Monday after a fiber optic line was cut, the company said.

Beverly Levy, an SBC spokeswoman, said the outage had cut service to customers who used SBC dial-up or the DSL broadband service.

Ms Levy said that the vendor whose fiber line was cut Monday morning worked around the problem by routing Connecticut Internet traffic through New Jersey. By 3 pm customers had service restored, the company said.

Ms Levy did not know how many customers were affected, but said service disruptions had been reported around the state.