TelEm Group investigating malicious damage to underground fiber Cable in Sucker Garden area. | SMN NEWS

telemdamagecable03112020Pond Island:— TelEm Group technicians and engineers are reporting malicious damage to an underground fiber cable that has left customers in the Sucker Garden, Guana Bay, and Hope Estate areas without landline and internet service.

The damage was discovered Monday afternoon after customers in the affected areas began calling about an interruption in service.

After doing some troubleshooting with special measuring equipment, the technicians and engineers traced the problem to a manhole in the Sucker Garden area that had obviously been tampered with.

“There is clear evidence that someone went into the manhole and physically cut the cable. We are ...


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