Widespread Charter Internet Outage Affects Los Angeles, Atlanta, St. Louis and other U.S. cities

June 22: A widespread outage starting at about 4 PM Los Angeles time, appears to be affecting Charter internet customers across the U.S.

Citing sources within the company, Turlock California City news Says that the outage is due To a fiber optic cable which has been accidentally severed near Calabasas.

Service was restored in Woodland Hills today just before 1 p.m. PST

Downdetector.com says that outages have been reported in Charter Spectrum Internet, in Saint Louis, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, Madison, Wheaton, Mountain View, Athens, and Sacramento. In Woodland Hills, people assumed the 6th straight day of above 100 degree temperatures had caused a power outage. But the Charter outage appears to be unreleated to high temperatures in the American Southwest.

The company has not responded to our request for comment.

Charter Communications is an American cable telecommunications company, which offers their services to consumers and businesses under the branding of Charter Spectrum. Providing services to over 25 million customers in 41 states, it is the second-largest cable operator in the United States by subscribers, just behind Comcast, and by residential subscriber lines it is the tenth-largest telephone provider.

In late 2012 with the naming of longtime Cablevision executive Thomas Rutledge as their CEO, the company relocated their main headquarters from St. Louis, Missouri, to Stamford, Connecticut, though many operations remain based out of St. Louis.

On May 18, 2016, Charter acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks for a combined $65.5 billion, making it the third-largest pay television company in the United State