{"id":109510,"date":"2025-08-25T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109510\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:03:11","slug":"widespread-internet-outage-friday-caused-by-damaged-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109510\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread internet outage Friday caused by damaged cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish-date\">Posted Aug 25, 2025 09:49:44 AM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-modified-date\">Last Updated Aug 25, 2025 10:03:00 AM.<\/p>\n<p>Questions are being asked about what caused a widespread internet outage in Waterloo Region on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Waterloo regional police said days later, it\u2019s due to extensively damaged communications cables in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said the damaged cables were found in the Speedsville Road and Royal Oak Road area of the city around 2:30 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>They add that nothing was stolen, but investigators are actively looking for the suspect or suspects involved.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were out all Friday afternoon, evening and overnight to get everything repaired by Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterloocrimestoppers.com\/sitemenu.aspx?ID=152&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Crime Stoppers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Aug 25, 2025 09:49:44 AM. Last Updated Aug 25, 2025 10:03:00 AM. Questions are being asked about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-109510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}