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Vandals disrupt SaskTel services

About 130 SaskTel customers were without service on Oct. 6 and 7
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Alleged incidents of vandalism resulted in outages of SaskTel services in both Saskatoon and Moose Jaw recently.

In Moose Jaw, the outage took place from 11:45 p.m. on Oct. 6 to 6 p.m. on Oct. 7. Approximately 130 customers were without phone, internet, and television services for around 18 hours.

SaskTel says a cabinet on the 500 block of Hochelaga St. West was vandalized and cables were moved and cut within the cabinet.

According to a press release, SaskTel expresses concern that such outages may affect customers' ability to communicate during an emergency situation. 

Anyone with information on this incident, or any other suspcious activity involving SaskTel property, equipment, or infrastructure, should contact the police.

According to SaskTel, similar incidents took place in Saskatoon on Oct. 13 and Oct. 7. 

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