Complete Black Out In Jersey
Verizon Wireless suffers outage in N.J.
By Kelly Hill
May 31, 2006
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless had a brief service outage on Tuesday evening that affected customers in southern New Jersey, after equipment at a switching center shut down due to overheating.
Verizon Wireless spokesperson Sheldon Jones said that a heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) unit at the switching center failed, and caused “high temperatures in one of our switches.” The equipment shut down, Jones said, due to a combination of high outside temperatures and the failure of the HVAC unit.
Temperatures in New Jersey on Tuesday reached more than 90 degrees, according to The Weather Channel.
The four-hour outage began at 7:3...
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