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Update:

Shaw Internet has been restored to the Okanagan region. According to a tweet from Shaw Help, a fibre line was not the cause of the outage.

The exact cause has not yet been revealed.

Internet restored to Okanagan area – please contact us if issues are ongoing. Thank you for your patience. ^Lance — Shaw Help (@Shawhelp) June 9, 2015

Original Story:

Shaw Internet is down for many customers in the Okanagan region.

Services went out around 5:30 a.m. and crews are working to get service restored to the region.

Good morning, techs are working on resolving the service interuption in the Okanagan Region. Thank you for your patience. ^TD — Shaw Help (@Shawhelp) June 9, 2015

Customers in Kelowna, Vernon, Penticton, and in between are reporting outages.

@DeboaZ No current ETA avail but we'll tweet out any updates we receive to keep everyone in the loop~ ^SJ — Shaw Help (@Shawhelp) June 9, 2015

According to the Shaw Help Twitter account, crews are working to get service restored as quickly as possible. It is believed that highway construction crews may have ripped up or cut a fibre line.

@theSconnection Hi. It looks like highway construction ripped up our fibre line. Techs on site making repairs. ^Lance — Shaw Help (@Shawhelp) June 9, 2015

The outage has spread further than the Okanagan, with customers in Kamloops, Williams Lake, and Prince George offline.