- Dates
- 2020-10-26 – 2020-10-27
- Kind
- Service outage
- Where
- place/beaver-island-commission-on-aging
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- agingpublic-servicetelecommunications
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On October 26–27, 2020, the Beaver Island Commission on Aging reported that its office could make outgoing calls but could not receive incoming calls or use internet service. The COA asked people who had called its office number and received no answer to understand that the communication interruption was responsible.
Evidence limits
These are direct COA notices and establish the interruption as an institutional service problem. They do not establish its technical cause, the number of affected clients, or when service was restored.
Sources
- The first-party notice said the COA office could dial out but could not receive incoming calls or internet service, and asked callers to understand that unanswered calls might reflect the interruption. It does not establish the cause or restoration time.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015784
- The next-day first-party notice said incoming calls and internet service were still unavailable while the COA worked toward a solution. No later restoration notice is preserved in this thread.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015786
Added 9 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island COA reports phone and internet interruption, October 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-coa-phone-internet-outage-october-2020/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island COA, “Beaver Island COA technical issues,” Beaver Island Forum, October 26, 2020. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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