Name: Beaver Island residents report a TDS telephone and DSL outage, August 2009
Start: 2009-08-21
End: 2009-08-21
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island residents report a TDS telephone and DSL outage, August 2009

Also Beaver Island TDS telephone outage August 21 2009

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TypeEvent

Date2009-08-21

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 2009-08-21
Kind: Outage
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communicationtechnologyinfrastructure
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On August 21, 2009, residents reported a TDS telephone outage affecting at least Western Shores, with long-distance and DSL problems also reported. The original poster said service had been restored later that day.

Evidence limits

This is a probable local outage record based on community reports. It does not establish the cause, full geographic scope, duration for every customer, or whether telephone and DSL failures shared the same fault.

Sources

Beaver Island Forum, "Telephone outage," August 21–22, 2009.
A resident reports losing TDS telephone service at Western Shores; another reports phone restoration but continuing DSL and long-distance problems; the original poster later reports service restored. The thread has no TDS incident number, cause, service-area map, or provider confirmation.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001853

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island residents report a TDS telephone and DSL outage, August 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-telephone-outage-august-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, "Telephone outage," August 21–22, 2009..

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