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TDS credits Beaver Island customers after July lightning outages

Also Lightning Strike victims receive Credit 2004

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TypeEvent
Date2004-08
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2004-08
Kind
Announcement
Eras
Modern era
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communicationtechnologycommunity
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Beaver Island

Summary

TDS Telecom gave Beaver Island customers a local service credit of at least $14.05 after mid-July lightning strikes interrupted telephone service.

Evidence limits

The report does not identify every affected customer or provide the total credits issued.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, September 2004, "Lightning Strike victims receive Credit."
    Reports that TDS Telecom credited customers at least $14.05 after mid-July lightning-related telephone outages and asked customers to report service problems. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the service-credit notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “TDS credits Beaver Island customers after July lightning outages”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-tds-lightning-service-credit-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2004, "Lightning Strike victims receive Credit." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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