The Department of Commerce is now working to come up with an assessment on the economic impact of the CNMI-wide network outage and the ongoing limited Internet problem on Saipan<\/p>\n
According to acting Commerce secretary Dave Maratita, they will be doing a survey to be able to get information from the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was discussed in the Cabinet meeting. We will look into that,\u201d Maratita said.<\/p>\n
He added that it will be a socio-economic survey that will look into what kind of impact businesses experienced from this problem<\/p>\n
Maratita also said that they will try to capture the businesses\u2019 as well as the consumers\u2019 standpoint on what impact they experienced.<\/p>\n
He said they will be waiting for Commerce Secretary Mark Rabauliman, who should be returning to the island this week after being on leave due to official business.<\/p>\n
The department did not give a rough estimate on how much the CNMI lost and is losing because of the network problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe survey will definitely give an overall estimate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added that the approach will probably be to conduct a survey on random businesses and consumers.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that\u2019s not definite yet. We still have to come up with a specimen on what type of questions will we have,\u201d Maratita said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s still under planning and discussion,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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