Thousands of Verizon customers in Central and southern Oregon were without service for several hours this morning.  Verizon spokesman Scott Charleston:  “There was an issue with the fiber, which is what we use to connect to most of our cell sites in our wireless network. So there was a brief outage for about two hours, and it’s fully restored now.” Charlston says it's very rare that there is an interruption is service and the company apologizes for any inconvenience.