CHICAGO-A power outage put a U.S. Cellular Corp. switching center near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, out of commission for several hours Monday. The outage caused disruptions in cellular service to the carrier’s customers in eastern Iowa and one portion of western Illinois.
Cellular service went down around 6:45 a.m. CST and was restored by around 2 p.m., according to U.S. Cellular spokesperson Matthew Tiefenbrun. He said the cause of the power outage was not yet known and engineers were investigating what had happened.
U.S. Cellular’s outage comes just days after Sprint Nextel Corp. suffered a major service outage in portions of the western U.S.
