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Stray bullet knocks 25,000 customers off the internet in Texas

Gail P Sherman
Oct 03, 2025
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An outage last week knocked out phone, TV, and internet access for thousands of customers in numerous cities across North and Central Texas, including Dallas and San Antonio, according to a report from 404 Media. Angry customers flooded the r/Spectrum subreddit with reports, and the outage lasted several hours. The cause of the outage was ver…

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