By Diana Haecker
A fiber optic cable that was severed along with the power line at Swanberg Dredge on Tuesday, June 16 at noon, has since caused a widespread outage of phone and internet service for Fastwyre customers. The resulting power outage was restored soon after the incident, but repairing the fiber optic cable is taking longer.
As of Friday, Fastwyre technicians were on the ground in Nome, working on repairs.
The outage was caused when…
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