Vandalism causes outage of windward cell towers

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Honolulu Police Department is informing those on windward Oʻahu that cell towers in the area are currently experiencing outages.

HPD posted on their social media at about 7:30 p.m. informing the public of the outage, citing vandalism as the cause.

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Authorities say that affected cellular carriers have been notified of the issue and are working to resolve it.

As a result of the outage, the Palm Tree Festival at Turtle Bay asked concertgoers to screenshot their tickets.

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An investigation has been opened into the vandalism.