Name: Powers Hardware reports and repairs a telephone-line outage, 2020
Start: 2020-08-18
End: 2020-08-19
Location: Beaver Island

Powers Hardware reports and repairs a telephone-line outage, 2020

Also Powers Hardware telephone outage 2020

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TypeEvent

Dates2020-08-18 – 2020-08-19

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Dates: 2020-08-18 – 2020-08-19
Kind: Business service
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: commercecommunicationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Powers Hardware reported a failed main telephone line on August 18, 2020, provided a temporary contact number, and announced restoration of the main line the following day.

Evidence limits

This is a first-party business notice. It establishes the interruption and reported restoration but not the technical cause or a wider communications outage.

Sources

cindyr, “Hardware Telephone,” Beaver Island Forum, August 18–19, 2020.
Powers Hardware announced that its main telephone line had been out for several days, supplied a temporary number, and reported the primary line repaired the next day. This first-party notice establishes a short service interruption and restoration, not the technical cause or any wider telecommunications outage.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Powers Hardware reports and repairs a telephone-line outage, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-powers-hardware-phone-line-repaired-2020/, accessed [date], citing cindyr, “Hardware Telephone,” Beaver Island Forum, August 18–19, 2020..

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