Vermont Public Radio reports that "state regulators plan to investigate why Internet service was interrupted across Vermont today, for the second time in a month." Indeed, customers of Level 3 Communications, which is used by internet service providers and small telephone companies to provide service to their own customers, "could not surf the Web or use their email for hours." Effected customers included the state government, "whose Web sites and email crashed until a backup could be connected." According to Steve Wark from the Public Service Department's Level 3 is "critical to the region's communications network." So far, Level 3 has not offered an explanation for the service interruptions.

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