School phones, internet down most of Wednesday

By Tessa Roy
Posted 10/20/16

If you couldn't get in touch with schools on Wednesday, here's why. Landline and Internet connections to Warwick schools were down from about 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., nearly the entire school day. Secretary to the Superintendent Catherine

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School phones, internet down most of Wednesday

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If you couldn’t get in touch with schools on Wednesday, here’s why.

Landline and Internet connections to Warwick schools were down from about 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., nearly the entire school day. Secretary to the Superintendent Catherine Bonang said the outage mainly affected administration and those who needed to use the networked copy machines. Though students and teachers could not use their Chromebooks during the outage, Bonang said she did not hear any complaints and that even after connection was restored, the phones remained fairly silent.

“I guess people figured we took the day off,” she joked.

Bonang believes the system outage occurred because of a Cox fiber optic cable near Aldrich.

A representative from Cox could not provide any more information about the outage and, as of press time, actually said there had been no outages reported that day.

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  • Justanidiot

    They are two schools over capacity on their inferstructure. If they close things down like they want, then the phones will work.

    Friday, October 21, 2016 Report this

  • FedUp

    There were no complaints because the phones were out. The phones came on after some schools had closed at the end of the day.

    It was the very first thing that my third grader said after school "We finally got internet back."

    Lessons were disrupted! Teachers did not complain because it falls on deaf ears

    Friday, October 21, 2016 Report this