Telecommunications giant, GTT, is cautioning members of the public to take extra care with its cables, as millions are being spent to repair and replace the damaged facilities.
This call was made as a team of technicians from the company commenced work in West La Penitence, Georgetown, on Thursday morning, replacing some
GTT technicians replacing damaged cables at West La Penitence
damaged cables that have been down for a couple of weeks.
Speaking with media operatives, GTT Communications Officer Nadia De Abreu explained that the telephone service of approximately 200 customers along the West Front Road and West Back Road areas was disrupted due to damaged cables.
To this end, she noted the company is replacing those damaged cables with brand new ones, running all the way from ‘telephone house’, in order to reconnect those customers with their telephone services.
According to De Abreu, these works might take some two weeks to be completed. However, she noted that the installation was done as part of a continuous upgrade project being conducted to service surrounding communities.
“We have just completed some work for the residents of West Ruimveldt and Roxanne Burnham Gardens and some of the surrounding areas so now these cables will reconnect the services of those in West Front and Back Road,” she stated.
Meanwhile, Alison Parker, also a communications officer attached to GTT, took the opportunity to urge persons to protect the company’s facilities that were erected at strategic areas to provide telecommunication services to citizens.
“We have found over the past years vandalism, careless digging, accidents have all damaged our facilities. We have to replace them not only at a financial cost but at a cost to the customers who those cables serve because once they’re out of service – you know what it is like not to have your telephone and not to have your Internet. So we are asking the general public to consider it your facility, protect it,” she implored. Moreover, Parker called on the public to inform the company whenever they witness vandalism or any other activities that would eventually result or may result in the destruction of its facilities.
