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Nationwide CenturyLink internet outage hits Montana

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MISSOULA – Western Montana is among the areas being impacted by a nationwide internet outage.

Our network is experiencing a disruption affecting customer services. We understand some customers are currently unable…

Posted by CenturyLink on Thursday, December 27, 2018

Missoula Federal Credit Union states on their website that “We are currently experiencing technical issues with our ATMs and Mobile App. This is caused by a regional outage with our internet provider.”

Some pharmacies in Missoula were also reporting a lack of internet service as of mid-day on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Helena Police Department issued a statement on its Facebook page that it has had some 911 issues related to the outage.

Elsewhere across the West, the downdetector.com website was showing major internet outages in the Denver, Boise, Seattle, Salt Lake City and Portland areas.

911 issues are likely related to nationwide internet outages being experienced by CenturyLink. Many business and…

Posted by Helena Montana Police Department on Thursday, December 27, 2018

Verizon was also suffering from internet outages on Thursday including in the Missoula, Helena and Billings areas, according to downdetector.com.

Denver, Portland. Salt Lake City and Seattle were also seeing internet outages in the Western US.

We will have more information on this developing story as it becomes available.

Story by Mark R. Thorsell, MTN News