Topic: Fiber Outage

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 1677 of the No Agenda show, originating from the Texas Hill Country and Northern Silicon Valley on July 14, 2024. The hosts discuss a local fiber optic outage and technical equipment failures involving ghosted drives. They establish the "emergency" nature of the broadcast following the weekend's major political events.

A personal anecdote describes a frustrating eight-hour fiber optic outage with provider Frontier. The host details the process of navigating automated chatbots and "dot-dot-dot" bubbles before finally getting an agent to acknowledge a local outage that was initially denied.

Reports of irregularities in the French election include videos of allegedly tampered ballots for Marine Le Pen. Following the election, France experienced coordinated sabotage of fiber optic cables in multiple locations, causing significant internet outages. The hosts discuss the vulnerability of physical internet infrastructure and the potential motives behind such attacks.

A recreational vehicle exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, damaging 41 buildings and injuring three people. The blast occurred near an AT&T facility, causing widespread communication outages across Tennessee and Kentucky due to the termination of critical fiber optic lines in that specific building. Service disruptions were delayed until backup natural gas generators failed after the city cut gas lines for safety.

A massive communications outage in five Northern California counties was caused by deliberate vandalism of AT&T fiber optic lines. The FBI is investigating the sabotage, which disrupted 911 services, internet, and credit card processing in Humboldt, Mendocino, and Del Norte counties. The incident highlights the vulnerability of regional infrastructure that lacks redundant backup lines.