Tag: Infrastructure Crime

By Jasmine Arenas | CBS Colorado Some residents and businesses in southeast Denver were without landline phone service for more than a week, leaving many frustrated by what they described as a lack of communication from service provider CenturyLink. CBS Colorado reached out to CenturyLink and a company representative said the outage was the result of being targeted by copper thieves. Phone service was restored Friday morning at Bonnie Brae Flowers, a longtime flower shop on Evans Avenue. Owner Bell Mendenhall said the business was without landline service for more than 10 days. "It's nice to have phones again when you do a lot of business over the phone," Mendenhall said. "People call when they want to send flowers." READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT CBS COLORADO