Some internet, wireless services out Thursday, Friday this week

A planned fiber outage will happen in Grant County late this week for line repair and replacement, temporarily cutting off internet for fiber customers, and disrupting major wireless carriers locally as well, according to local internet providers.

Coulee Internet, iFIBER, and Fordair Wireless all sent notice that internet will be down for eight hours for fiber optic line repair, sometime within the window of 10 p.m. Thursday, May 16, and Friday at noon.

“This will cause fiber hubs and cell phone services (Verizon & ATT/T-mobile) to be down for 8 hours,” read an email Coulee Internet Services sent its customers. “The maintenance will be to repair and replace fiber lines that were damaged by fires.”

No further information was available at the Grant PUD website, and they did not issue a press release.