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Verizon Network Failure Halts Penn. Lottery Sales

May 5, 2004, 7:28 am

Pennsylvania LotteryPennsylvania Lottery: Verizon Network Failure Halts Penn. Lottery Sales

Verizon, the telecommunications provider for the Pennsylvania Lottery, experienced a network failure in Central Pennsylvania around lunchtime Tuesday.

The problem was resolved within approximately an hour and a half and all retail operations have been restored.

The failure affected 274 Pennsylvania Lottery retailers in the Harrisburg, Lancaster, York, Tamaqua, Nanticoke and State College areas.

Some Lottery terminals in the (717), (570), and (814) area codes began experiencing technical problems around 11:33 Tuesday morning.  All retail operations were restored by 12:50 p.m.

The Pennsylvania Lottery apologized for inconvenience caused by Verizon's network failure and thanked players for their patience.

The lottery was particularly concerned with the sale of Powerball tickets for today's $170 million drawing.

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weshar75
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Mcminnville, Oregon
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Posted: May 5, 2004, 9:25 am - IP Logged

Even with the network failure Pennsylvania will still be number one in winning tickets. 

    keystonechas
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    Posted: May 5, 2004, 10:03 am - IP Logged

    Pa Lottery terminals being down is nothing new. I live in the 717 area code and purchase tickets just about every day. On average I'm turned away once every month and sometimes more. For some strange reason its around the lunch time period. I alway kid the retail employees that they turn off the machines in Harrisburg so they can eat their lunch in peace.

    Just think of all the money thats being lost, with the down time. Heads should roll and at the very least the state should get a new telecommunication provider.

    Chas

      Lotto Czar
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      Harrisburg, Pa.
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      Posted: May 7, 2004, 8:24 am - IP Logged

      OH my God!  It's a good thing I went ot Strawberry Square on Monday to get my weeks worth of tickets.  this is news to me, since I went to the Town News on Tuesday to cash in my $1 Winner from Monday, which was invested in a Philly Daily News.

      For those of us who work in Downtown Harrisburg and frequent the machines at Lunch time.  this is not true .  But the clerks get really grumpy.

         
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