Location leads to internet, phone, TV outage lasting to Saturday

A bad location led to extra time being needed to repair damage that caused an internet, telephone and television outage in a large swathe of north-central Montana, a Charter Spectrum official said this morning.

Charter Spectrum spokesperson Danielle Dunn said the location of damage to a fiber-optic cable owned by a third party led to the extended outage.

Charter Spectrum reported Friday that the services went out Thursday night in locations including Havre, Chinook, Harlem and Great Falls.

The damage to the third-party carrier’s fiber-optic network disrupted services for Spectrum customers unt...