Students in hundreds of Miami-Dade schools spent two days without internet.
A construction crew cut a fiber optic cable that feeds Miami-Dade County Public Schools' main data center on Wednesday morning, crashing internet access for 300 sites, including a majority of schools and some administrative offices.
The accident occurred at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday at SW 107th Avenue and Coral Way, as first reported by WLRN's news partner, the Miami Herald. Service was restored late afternoon on Thursday.
A South Florida spokeswoman for AT&T wrote in an email the company worked "around the clock" to fix the outages caused by the construction crew.
"The damage was extensive and required us to dig up the roadway to access the cables for repairs," Kelly Layne Starling said in a statement.
Miami-Dade school district chief communications officer Daisy Gonzalez-Diego wrote in an email: "Teaching and learning was not disrupted since the internet is not the only resource teachers have at their disposal to carry out their instructional day."
Updated at 3:30 p.m. with additional information.
