Politics & Government
UPDATED: City Government Communications Restored
Phones and email went dead Wednesday and Verizon hasn't said why, according to officials.
UPDATED (Dec. 15)—Phone, email and web service was restored to the Bowie City government shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday.
Verizon service went down at Bowie City Hall on Wednesday. The city government worked assertively with Verizon to have service restored, said city spokeswoman Una Cooper.
“We don’t know how it happened,” said Cooper. “Verizon has not given us an adequate explanation. We don’t understand why our service couldn’t have been re-routed.”
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Bowie Patch reached out to a Verizon spokesman, and is awaiting a response.
Original post—The city of Bowie is experiencing problems with its telephone service. As a result, city officials said Wednesday they can’t receive incoming calls or send or receive emails. The city's website is unavailable to the public, and the city is unable to send out messages through its alert system.
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To reach City Hall, please call 301-805-8781.
City spokeswoman Una Cooper said the problem is Verizon related, and that the carrier was working to fix it. The estimated restoration time is 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
