High-speed Internet service was restored to thousands of Wisconsin businesses and residents late this afternoon after a road construction crew had ruptured a major fiber optic line connecting the Milwaukee region to Chicago early this morning.
The line was accidentally cut by a crew working along Interstate 94 in northern Illinois. The disruption caused slow or non-existent Internet connections for companies and residences throughout the Midwest for most of the day.
A spokesman for TDS Metrocom said the damaged line has been repaired and service has been restored for the company's customers throughout the Midwest this afternoon..
TDS and several other Internet service providers (ISPs) rent bandwidth on the line that was ruptured.
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