SHREVEPORT, LA - A widespread outage at Comcast/Xfinity leaves folks fuming on Monday night. For thousands of Shreveport residents, the outage began at about 4pm in the afternoon. Xfinity was telling customers they hoped to have the system back up and running by 8pm.

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Xfinity/Comcast blames the outage on network damage.

Downdetector reports trouble with the following services have been reported:

65% landline internet

28% no signal

8% tv streaming
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Service to many was restored by about 9pm across much of Shreveport. This outage was not limited to Shreveport Bossier. Outages were reported in many cities across the nation. Residents of Monroe also reported no service. Waskom, Texas residents also reported they lost service.

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What Are the Hardest Hit Areas in Shreveport?

Residents in the following zip codes were reporting high outage numbers:
711507111871105 and 71101.

Comcast offers cable television, internet, telephone and wireless services to consumer under the Xfinity brand. Comcast Xfinity is the largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States.

 

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Much of the service in Shreveport has been restored as of 4am this morning.

But some customers say the internet service is very slow.

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