The Brief

Thousands of North Texas Spectrum users lost service on Friday afternoon.

A Spectrum spokesperson tells FOX 4 the outage was caused by a stray bullet damaging a fiber optic cable.

Service was restored by Friday afternoon.

DALLAS - Several Spectrum internet users in North Texas were knocked offline on Friday.

Spectrum Outage Texas

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What we know:

According to the website DownDetector , thousands of people in Dallas - Fort Worth trying to use Charter's Spectrum internet began reporting issues around 1 p.m.

The service was nearly entirely restored by 4 p.m.

A Spectrum spokesperson told FOX 4 the outage occurred after a fiber optic cable was damaged by a stray bullet.

What we don't know:

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