{"id":647864,"date":"2026-05-04T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647864\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:12:09","slug":"vandals-responsible-for-telus-outage-across-northwest-b-c-company-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647864\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals responsible for Telus outage across northwest B.C., company says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Telus is estimating its internet, TV and phone services will be restored to northwest B.C. by late Monday afternoon after vandals attempted to steal some of the company’s copper cables.<\/p>\n

In an email, a spokesperson said those responsible were attempting to steal the cables in the area of Sheraton, B.C., about 20 kilometres east of Burns Lake. <\/p>\n

In the process, the vandals cut through fibre lines, leading to the failure of services including internet, cellphone text and calls, home phones and 911 landlines.<\/p>\n

People have been impacted from Burns Lake to Haida Gwaii, including businesses that rely on internet for payment and other services.<\/p>\n

Telus said it has activated emergency roaming service through another carrier so cellphone customer can remain connected.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted online, Northern Health said the outage may be causing “a loss of phone and internet services for local health facilities, and limited or no ability to reach 9-1-1 in some communities, ” but that health centres and hospitals remain open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-647864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}