Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Phone Service Interruption Affecting Schuylkill and Luzerne Counties

A major phone outage is reported to be affecting parts of Luzerne and Schuylkill Counties.


According to Schuylkill County Emergency Management, Frontier Communications has a major service disruption due to a cut line..

The Frontier Service Center was unable to provide Schuylkill County 911 Communications Center with the impact to residents within Schuylkill County; however, there are reports that North Union Township is without service.

All customers of Frontier Communications within Schuylkill County, whether traditional land line telephone or voice over internet should be aware of this problem and remain cautions throughout the outage.

Frontier was unable to provide an estimate of the restoration of service.