Name: Beaver Island Rural Health Center reports a TDS phone-circuit outage, January 2023
Start: 2023-01-02
End: 2023-01-02
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island Rural Health Center reports a TDS phone-circuit outage, January 2023

Also BIRHC phone line outage January 2023 · Beaver Island TDS telephone circuit outage

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TypeEvent

Date2023-01-02

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 2023-01-02
Kind: Outage
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Rural Health Center
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcaretelecommunicationsemergency-servicespublic-safety
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On January 2, 2023, the Beaver Island Rural Health Center reported that its TDS phone line was unavailable to callers using cell phones because of an island telephone-circuit outage affecting multiple lines. BIRHC stated that 911 remained operational.

Evidence limits

The first-party notice establishes the reported condition and emergency-call guidance at that time. It does not establish the outage’s cause, full duration, or all affected subscribers.

Sources

Beaver Island Rural Health Center, “BIRHC Phone line still out,” Beaver Island Forum, January 2, 2023.
BIRHC reported that its TDS line could receive calls from landlines but not cell phones, attributed the problem to an island circuit outage affecting multiple lines, and stated that 911 remained operational with Charlevoix County Central Dispatch and BI EMS aware. This is a contemporaneous first-party service notice, not a carrier incident report or complete outage log.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Rural Health Center reports a TDS phone-circuit outage, January 2023”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-rural-health-center-tds-phone-outage-january-2023/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Rural Health Center, “BIRHC Phone line still out,” Beaver Island Forum, January 2, 2023..

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