GAMTEL is still being affected by concurrent fibre cable cuts which courses serious interruptions of service delivery.
This time around the fibre cable cuts happened back to back within weeks between the Gamtel Brufut junction going into Brufut Ghana town.
A very disruptive and costly damage caused by a NAWEC water subcontractor call DOKU.
A n A - 2 x 48 core cable tubes that connects multitude of customers completelly was mutilated thereby rendered off service to many customers in an around the country.
Seeing the cables, the pipes, and several pieces of materials damaged, and left abandoned by the NAWEC contracted workers was eye soaring.
Speaking to our reporter the managing director of GAMTEL Lamin A Tunkara said “ this had happened before and we restored, and we are reliving the same experiences again. The proof is in the optics. Our customers are seriously affected. More especially customers like our GSM operators, including Netpage, QCell, and their customers”
Managing director Tunkara continues “if you are guessing how deep the trenches are, or asking how do we protect these network cables, please take note of what we share here in the photos attached. At a minimum, we dig down to a meter. Cables are laid, backfilled, and at half way from the bottom of the pit, a very a very visible WARNING NET is placed on top and inscribed on it is the number 144 call for direction”
“ No one would have said that that the trenches are not deep enough, or the cables not placed with protection. We did not only protect our cables but we put WARNING SIGNS ON THEM” Tunkara concluded. He call on the general public to report irregular activities and cable cuts as and when it happened.
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