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Panama Residents Face Week-Long Phone, Internet Outage

12/16/2025

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Story summary

Residents in Panama, Nebraska, have been without phone and internet for over four days.
Lyle Mulver, who relies on a landline for medical care, says Windstream (the service provider) has not provided updates.
Lyle Mulver's grandson, Christaan Schroeder, notes outages have worsened, with repair times up to a week.
The outage affects students and remote workers.
Windstream acknowledged the outage and offered future credits.

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Story summary

Residents in Panama, Nebraska, have been without phone and internet for over four days.
Lyle Mulver, who relies on a landline for medical care, says Windstream (the service provider) has not provided updates.
Lyle Mulver's grandson, Christaan Schroeder, notes outages have worsened, with repair times up to a week.
The outage affects students and remote workers.
Windstream acknowledged the outage and offered future credits.