Arlington County tree trimmers accidentally spliced through a Comcast fiber-optic cable Wednesday, cutting off phone, Internet and video service for thousands of customers in the southern half of the county.
The outage, which occurred at 8:30 a.m., affected 2,500 phone customers in Crystal City, Arlington County officials said.
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