Mobile-phone outage hits N.Y. borough
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A water leak in a Verizon Communications telephone switching facility has knocked out service to Sprint Nextel customers in the New York City borough of Queens for much of Thursday, Verizon confirmed.
The leak damaged equipment in a central office facility owned by Verizon in New York. Equipment from mobile-phone provider Sprint Nextel is housed in this facility, which switches traffic between the cellular access network and the traditional phone network. Equipment in the facility serves customers using the old Nextel nationwide network in most of Queens and parts of the borough of Brooklyn and on New York’s Long Island. As a result, the outage impacts only longtime Nextel customers, a Sprint spokesman said.
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