Widespread Phone Outage in Central and Southwest Virginia

[Yonnie3]

There is apparently a wide spread outage in Virginia and NC affecting CenturyLink customers.

I've seen multiple tweets advising how to contact 911 and other agencies. Nothing on CenturyLink social media.

I've only seen one news story so far:

https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/local-news/911-outages-call-issues-reported-in-multiple-localities-in-southwest-central-virginia/

911 outages, call issues reported in multiple localities in southwest, central Virginia
Local News

by: Colleen Guerry
Posted: Jul 22, 2021 / 10:18 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 22, 2021 / 11:55 AM EDT

(WFXR) — At least seven counties and three cities in southwest and central Virginia are reporting outages or call issues with their 911 lines Thursday.

Rockbridge County Fire-Rescue and Emergency Management says this appears to be part of a multi-state 911 outage and is asking community members to call [phone] or text 911 in case of an emergency. This also impacts the 911 systems in Lexington and Buena Vista.

In Buena Vista, the city’s phone system is also down, so if you need immediate assistance, you are asked to email [e-mail].

Our landline has a dial tone but calls don't connect. Cell calls to landlines aren't going through. Cell to cell worked for me.

[EarlG]

1. We are also starting to get reports of major Internet outages

DU is unaffected at the moment...

[Yonnie3]

2. I see outages as well as I look for news about this.

Not many yet. Two NBC affiliate websites in Virginia are unreachable via CenturyLink DSL, but intermittent via cell data.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Russians, probably. At least now when I say that I wont get endless smirks and complaints.

And if it isnt them this time, it will be the next.

[SoCalNative]

4. Or China

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. yep

[Yonnie3]

5. Starting to see reports of a cut fiber near Marion VA

This is on the I-81 North/South corridor in South West Virginia.

Nothing from CenturyLink yet.


EDIT to add:

I am taking this report with more than a grain of salt. I don't see how this could affect local landline to landline call 180 miles away.