Frontier works to restore Internet service in Newport, Coeur d’Alene, Moscow

NEWPORT – Telephone and Internet service is being disrupted for some Frontier Communications customers in Eastern Washington, North Idaho and Montana after a truck damaged a fiber-optic cable.

Frontier says the truck clipped the cable about 6:45 a.m. Wednesday.

The company says it is working to restore service.

Among the communities affected are Newport, Washington, and Coeur d’Alene and Moscow, Idaho.