Union Wireless Investigating Service Outage

After a two-hour service outage on July 18, Union Wireless is now investigating the reason behind the outage.

As previously reported, Platte Valley customers of Union Wireless were without phone, data or internet service for approximately two hours. Initially, Union Wireless cited a planned power outage conducted by the Western Area Power Authority and Carbon Power & Light in the Elk Mountain area for the cause of the service outage.

“It’s interesting that the Western Area Power Administration crew shut off the power at 10 a.m but we did not lose our communications from Union Wireless until ar...