Verizon said the outage was caused by the "rare occurrence of two separate fiber cuts on different lines, impacting the redundancy built into our network." Engineers were able to solve the issue and restore service by 2 p.m.

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The Verizon network reported a major outage across Oklahoma Wednesday. 

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