Port Blair, Nov. 10: BSNL, Andaman & Nicobar Telecom Circle has regretted to announce that the OFC network of BSNL has been unfortunately damaged by private Telecom Service Provider (TSP), M/s AIRTEL. Due to indiscriminate and careless underground digging operations carried out by this TSP, the underground OFC cables have been severed at more than SIX places in and around Port Blair, within the last fortnight, by the contractors of the TSP. BSNL had cautioned them on several occasions to be careful in their activities, but to no avail.
In spite of asking them to stop further digging they have not cared, resulting in interruption to voice, broadband and FTTH services, both landline and mobile, including those distributing submarine cable bandwidth. This has affected vital links to Defence units (Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, ANC command, Secretariat, Airport, Hospitals, Banks, as well as Institutions in Dollygunj, including their Leased Circuits It might take more than a week to restore the OFC damages fully.
Meanwhile M/s AIRTEL are requested once again to first repair the damages caused by their carelessness, before undertaking any more digging. Inconvenience caused to our esteemed customers is deeply regretted, said a release from BSNL, A&N Telecom Circle.