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Friday, September 8th, 2023 2:36 PM

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How Does Comcast Figure Out Outages?

This morning a thunderstorm rolled though the area and knocked the cable out to the community I live in (multiple customers effected).  We have all called in and tech support just scheduled individual tech to come out  to look at our problems on different days/times.  This doesn't make sense to me but I don't work for Comcast. How do we get an outage declared so we don't have to have a dozen truck rolled out to fix a problem that is probably out on the main road?

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Hey there, @jb606! Thank you so much for taking the time to reach out to us, and we do hope that everyone is safe from the storm! 

 

With service interruptions, our team determines an area wide interruption if they are unable to get signal at the main hub or after so many appointments are booked that are connected to a specific area or main area connection. I know it certainly is frustrating, and it may change to a service interruption if there are more appointments booked. The issue may be only the connection to the customers surrounding you guys, and could be resolved fully after the first appointment. You can keep the most update to the area wide connection by visiting here https://www.xfinity.com/support/status-map and putting your address. If the dedicated local team switches it to a service interruption, all the appointments booked accounts would receive a text or call asking if the service is back online after the work is completed. Please let us know if you have any further questions/concerns. 

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Good answer, not what I was hoping to read but makes sense.  I really hope that it isn't a set number of customers.  The area I'm in doesn't have that many comcast customers anymore (fios kinda took over).  

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I completely understand, and I know it's super important to have access to your services @jb606

 

Our awesome maintenance team is always checking the area, and will be alerted right away if the area does need to be placed into an area wide service interruption. You can view any details regarding the interruption if it does switch in the Xfinity App, and then also sign up for alerts once it has been cleared. Please let us know if you have any further issues after the appointment or if it switches to interruption with the services. 

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