August has been a difficult month for mobile phone and internet users across the Los Angeles area, with separate cable theft incidents disrupting service for thousands of customers.
Spectrum was hit first on Aug. 7 when fiber-optic lines were cut. A few days later, Verizon lines were also cut and stolen, leaving customers without phone and internet service.
Verizon customers should be receiving calls and texts again after a widespread outage impacted thousands of phone and internet customers on Sunday.
Authorities say attacks targeting phone, internet and other communications infrastructure are increasing across the country. Last year, such incidents rose 59% nationwide, according to The Internet & Television Association…