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Spectrum services restored after outage reported in Kern County

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Customers are reporting Spectrum services are returning to normal after an outage affected thousands Saturday night throughout the greater Bakersfield area.

In a tweet just after 8:20 p.m., Spectrum said it was working to resolve “area problems” as quickly as possible for customers in Bakersfield, Delano, Lamont, Taft and Tehachapi. There were reports of outages to Spectrum services at around 7:30 p.m., according to Downdetector.com.

Spectrum later said the outage was due to a cut to its fiber optic network. A message to customers in its app said they expect to have service restored by 11:30 p.m. Customers reported services were coming back online by around 10:30 p.m.