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Bristow News & Record-Citizen 05/21/2014

County Oklahoma

ircumstance

Wednesday
May 21, 2014

Phones
out of
order

Communications
breakdown
cripples Bristow

By J. D. Meisner
Managing Editor
Residents and businesses who
rely on AT&T phone and wireless service experienced a complete outage of land line telephone, wireless telephone and
internet service Friday morning
from approximately 9:30 a.m.
until 1:40 p.m.
During that time, land line
phones in Bristow were off line,
producing a dial tone, but not
allowing any incoming, or outgoing calls. Also affected was
AT&T DSL and U-verse internet service.
Cell phones were disrupted as
well.
David Roberts, President and
CEO of Community Bank in
Bristow said that he was in a
photo by Tabatha Shadow meeting in Sapulpa Friday
-- the graduating Class of 2014 -- for the last time morning when he received a text
from a customer informing him
raduation ceremonies at Hafer Field Friday.
that they were unable to get
through to the bank that no
one was answering their cell
$250,000 it wouldve cost for the phones and the main phones
were busy.
se one netted county to conduct the audit in-house.
Roberts said that he at first
This has been a really controversial
ublic Schools
ublic Schools, issue. We have faced a lot of criticism didn't beieve the text, but when
ville Public and we faced a lot of scrutiny for doing See Phones, Page Three
Depew Public it, said Enlow. There are two compa2 for Milfay nies in the sate of Oklahoma that do
e Depew and this. Both of those companies are locatrt of the school ed out of state. There are 85 percent of
e the combined the counties in Oklahoma doing this
using one of those two companies.
Enlow said that no jobs were taken
the audit, the

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