"A spokesman for CenturyLink, the company that provides data services to the area, said technicians had to inspect the line "mile-by-mile" to find the fault, which they eventually located in a riverbed."<p>Huh? What happened to using an OTDR? Was there something about the fibre being in water that stopped the DTR being effective? It would take minutes to locate the fault with an ODTR to within less than a meter!