The arrival of the ship that will fix IT&E’s damaged undersea fiber optic cable between Tinian and Saipan has been pushed back a day\u2014from Wednesday to Thursday\u2014due to high seas and storms, the telecommunications firm said yesterday.<\/p>\n
The new date for the repair ship’s arrival is this July 23.<\/p>\n
It was originally scheduled to arrive Wednesday, July 22, after departing Taiwan at 10pm last Thursday.<\/p>\n
When it does arrive, IT&E is expected to load the vessel with equipment and begin right away on the repair process.<\/p>\n
IT&E has said their repair ship is a specialized vessel using jets instead of propellers to hold it in place as it inspects the fiber optic line and does repairs.<\/p>\n
Depending on the initial investigation, identifying the “break” location, and the type of break, IT&E expects a potential 48-hour repair timeline.<\/p>\n
Damage to the fiber optic line was not found last week by divers IT&E had hired to inspect the line. Dives ceased on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Because of this, damage to the line is said to be much deeper than what can be inspected from a surface dive.<\/p>\n
‘Split line’<\/strong><\/p>\n While responding to user complaints about “slow speeds experience,” IT&E said they found that some residential and commercial users\u2014with only single DSL connections\u2014have actually been “splitting” their line and connecting more than the recommended number of users per DSL line.<\/p>\n “Such practice is not allowed and is detrimental to the overall experience of all users, with or without the undersea cable issue,” IT&E said in a statement yesterday.<\/p>\n On Friday, IT&E announced that the CNMI’s 4G network had been restored under limited capacity. This continued yesterday.<\/p>\n IT&E continues to advise the public to maximize their Internet experience by connecting directly to their router but limit users to one at a time; turn off streaming and gaming; log off and disconnect completely when finished using the Internet; and use Internet only for information and basic communication.<\/p>\n Almost two weeks ago, damage to IT&E’s fiber optic line caused a massive network communications outage in the CNMI.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The arrival of the ship that will fix IT&E’s damaged undersea fiber optic cable between…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355,900,94,4],"tags":[26,650],"class_list":["post-206189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-featured","category-headlines","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}