By Aaron Aupperlee, Desert Dispatch, Barstow, Calif. Feb. 20--BARSTOW -- Jon Davies said the advantage of a fiber optic cable is that lots of information can be funneled down a small cable.

By From staff reports ONTARIO - A database crash at a Verizon switching center in Ontario disabled landline voicemail to about 740,000 customers statewide, a company spokesman said today.

By Stephanie Hoops, Ventura County Star, Calif. Feb. 8--Verizon's land-line customers in California are without voicemail service because of a problem with the telephone company's database server.

By Joe Nelson ONTARIO - A database crash at a Verizon switching center on D Street has disabled landline voicemail for about 740,000 customers statewide.

SOUTH BAY: El Segundo problem halts phones, Internet for eight hours. By Nick Green STAFF WRITER A severed fiber-optic cable in El Segundo on Friday blocked hundreds of thousands of telephone calls and caused e-mail and Internet problems for some South Bay Verizon customers.