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Three acts of vandalism left approximately 300 SaskTel customers without internet, television or home phone services, according to the provincial Crown corporation.

The suspicious activities took place in Moose Jaw and Saskatoon over the past nine days, SaskTel director of external communications Michelle Englot said Tuesday in a statement. Englot said SaskTel is concerned the outages may have affected customers’ ability “to communicate in the event of an emergency situation.”

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The first incident left around 130 customers in the 500 block of Hochelaga Street West in Moose Jaw without home phone service, internet and TV service for approximately 18 hours on Oct. 6 and 7. Cables inside a SaskTel cabinet were cut and moved around.

For approximately 12 hours on Oct. 7 and 8, around 20 customers in the 800 block of Fourth Avenue North in Saskatoon’s City Park neighbourhood were without home phone, internet and TV after fibre cables in a SaskTel cabinet were moved around to disconnect services, according to SaskTel.

On Sunday morning for around four hours, approximately 152 customers in the 400 block of 25th Street East, also in City Park, were without internet and TV services after a power metre was removed from a SaskTel cabinet, exposing live connectors and “creating an extremely dangerous situation,” according to SaskTel.

“If someone would have come into contact with the exposed power connectors, a severe electrical shock would have occurred,” SaskTel said.