Sumter phone service restored Wednesday morning

SUMTER, S.C. Phone service in Sumter County has been restored, according to the Sumter Police Department.-

Sporadic outages of phone service were caused by technical difficulties in Columbia, according to a department release.

Emergency 911 calls were not affected.

This story was originally published May 27, 2015 at 11:18 AM with the headline "Sumter phone service restored Wednesday morning."