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Whidbey Telecom will be performing routine maintenance on The BiG GiG Fiber Network. Starting on Thursday, April 30th at 00:01 AM, you can expect interruptions of up to 15 minutes on your fiber-connected internet and phone service. Maintenance should be complete be 02:00 AM, Thursday morning.
There has been a line cut in the Sandy Point/Beachwood area. Customers may be experiencing internet and telephone connectivity issues. Service disruptions are possible. Crews are onsite for repair work.
Some Whidbey Telecom customers may experience an “All Circuits Busy” message when trying to make a call outside of the Whidbey Telecom network. This outage is part of a Verizon service disruption. Only certain Long distance and 800 numbers that go across the Verizon Service disruption will be impacted. Whidbey Telecom engineers working with Verizon to troubleshoot and resolve. We await update from Verizon technician.
Update Thursday, April 2, 9 AM – technicians at the tower have replaced equipment. All services restored.
Update Monday, March 30, 9 AM – Traffic is being routed away from microwave radio tower while equipment is being replaced by service technicians.
Cellular and some long-distance traffic to and from Whidbey Telecom customers in Point Roberts and South Whidbey are currently experiencing intermittent issues with calls dropping and some calls not able to complete the connection. Verizon cellular customers appear to be the most impacted. Engineering has established the root cause and is in the process of routing traffic away from the overloaded microwave radio tower. A crew has been dispatched to replace the equipment that is at fault. Local calling and 911 service is not impacted.
Network maintenance scheduled for areas of Freeland and Clinton on February 27th beginning at 12:00 am. Downtime should be 10 minutes or less. BiG GiG customers will experience a brief loss of internet and/or phone service. If you have any questions, please contact Tech Support at 360-321-8324.
Network maintenance scheduled for areas of Langley and Sandy Hook on February 26th beginning at 12:00 am. Downtime should be 10 minutes or less. BiG GiG customers will experience a brief loss of internet and/or phone service. If you have any questions, please contact Tech Support at 360-321-8324.
Network maintenance scheduled for areas of Bayview and Swede Hill on February 25th beginning at 12:00 am. Downtime should be 10 minutes or less. BiG GiG customers will experience a brief loss of internet and/or phone service. If you have any questions, please contact Tech Support at 360-321-8324.
Network maintenance scheduled for the Possession Point area on January 30th from 9:00 am to approximately 3:00 pm. Services could potentially be affected during this time. If you have any questions, please contact Tech Support at 360-321-8324.
RESOLVED. Point Roberts connectivity has been restored, and voice and internet services are stable. A fiber tunnel had been cut, severing the cables for multiple providers across Western Washington, and causing a widespread outage.
RESOLVED. Frontier sustained heavy damage to one of their cables, impacting some cellular users and Whidbey Telecom telephone Long Distance customers.
RESOLVED. A small group of South Whidbey telephone customers may have experienced an “All Circuits Busy” message when trying to make a call outside of the Whidbey Telecom network. This outage was part of a large Frontier/Comcast North Whidbey issue and is outside of Whidbey Telecom control.