Cellphone and Internet service were restored to several mountain towns along the Interstate 70 corridor after an outage of several hours Monday, caused by a highway construction mishap.
The outage affected Georgetown, Central City and Idaho Springs, said Sara Spaulding, a CenturyLink spokeswoman.
A cable was severed during a Colorado Department of Transportation construction project at the Veterans Memorial Tunnels near Idaho Springs, said Emily Wilfong, a CDOT spokeswoman.
Workers were drilling a caisson as part of a tunnel project and severed a CenturyLink fiber-optic cable line, Wilfong said.
The line went down about 11 a.m. Technicians and repair crews repaired the line and restored service about 8:50 p.m., Spaulding said.
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