Acting governor Ralph DLG. Torres will hold a meeting today with Cabinet members to assess and update the government on regarding recent communications breakdown that continues to affect Saipan.<\/p>\n
As of yesterday, the island has yet to have Internet access, although mobile services and critical businesses such banks, are now back online.<\/p>\n
The massive communications outage occurred last week when services provider IT&E reported severe damage to its undersea fiber optic cable servicing the CNMI due to bad weather.<\/p>\n
The damage cable lies between Saipan and Tinian and as of yesterday, repair works on the cable and a backup microwave dish continues.<\/p>\n
Acting press secretary Matt Deleon Guerrero said it is back to normal for government offices today, starting with a Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n
He said the acting governor will give an update on the communications breakdown after the meeting.<\/p>\n
Deleon Guerrero also said Torres appreciates the patience and understanding of government employees who had to endure long queues in the bank for their salaries.<\/p>\n
The communications breakdown affected online backing transactions and automated teller machines, prompting the public to troop to their banks to manually transact.<\/p>\n
As of yesterday, Deleon Guerrero said there is still no word yet from IT&E as to when the backup system will be fully repaired.<\/p>\n
IT&E last week said the undersea cable will take three months to repair while the backup system will be repaired in a only matter of days. The microwave backup system will provide mobile services but Internet access speeds will not be as fast as before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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