{"id":162903,"date":"2025-09-27T03:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162903\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T03:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:11:06","slug":"stray-bullet-cuts-internet-for-nearly-25000-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162903\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray bullet cuts internet for nearly 25,000 in North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stray bullet damaged a fiber optic cable in Dallas, disrupting internet for nearly 25,000 Spectrum customers in North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS \u2014 A stray bullet disrupted internet service for thousands of North Texas customers Friday, cutting off access across multiple cities.<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum, the provider affected, did not release exact numbers, but outage-tracking website <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/spectrum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">DownDetector<\/a> reported nearly 25,000 users in North and Central Texas experienced service interruptions. By 4 p.m., most customers had regained connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas bore the brunt of the outage, with significant disruptions also reported in Irving, Plano, Arlington, Austin, and San Antonio. According to a Spectrum spokesperson, a stray bullet struck a fiber optic cable in the Dallas area, triggering the widespread service disruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur teams acted quickly to repair the damage and restore service,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cWe apologize for the inconvenience this caused our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/travel\/hundreds-of-flights-delayed-at-dfw-airport-love-field-amid-equipment-issue\/287-aa724f53-3d9a-445a-aed5-9bed2ca92c88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Just last week at DFW Airport and Love Field<\/a>, a telecommunications failure tied to cutting fiber optic cables knocked out both the primary and backup data pathways for the FAA\u2019s radars, radio frequencies, and computer systems in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stray bullet damaged a fiber optic cable in Dallas, disrupting internet for nearly 25,000 Spectrum customers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-162903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}