Members of the House Committee on Public Utilities, Transportation, and Communications are set to meet with representatives of IT&E sometime next week.<\/p>\n
The main purpose of the meeting, according to Rep. Francis Taimanao (Ind-Saipan), who chairs the committee, is to inquire about the service provider\u2019s contingency plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to know what their plans are, should another incident like this happens in the future,\u201d Taimanao.<\/p>\n
The CNMI suffered a massive communications outage a few weeks ago, and according to IT&E, services returned to normal last Monday.<\/p>\n
Repairs to the damaged submarine fiber optic cable were also completed, the service provider said.<\/p>\n
Taimanao said he has already sent the letter of invitation for the meeting on Aug. 5 at the House chamber on Capital Hill.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will ask not just for the status, but for the damages that it [outage] created, including losses of the business community,\u201d Taimanao said.<\/p>\n
He also plans to ask IT&E about it has a plan to upgrade its backup system to \u201cat least provide minimum operating capacity for the community\u201d if an outage happens again in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cOr at least a system to allow certain essential agencies, from both the private and public sectors, to be the priority,\u201d Taimanao.<\/p>\n
He also plans to ask IT&E of its plan to address \u201cbottleneck\u201d concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen services come back on and everyone on the CNMI start accessing, a bottleneck is created. How will IT&E address this in the future?\u201d Taimanao asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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