Power outage, fibre cuts take toll on mobile network in Amphan-hit areas

New Delhi: Power outage and frequent fibre cuts have disrupted telecom connectivity in Cyclone Amphan hit areas, particularly Kolkata, North and South 24 Pargana districts of West Bengal. Industry players told that still around 70 per cent of the telecom network in the worst affected areas is working and around 85-90 per cent of the connectivity will be restored by Friday evening.

“There has been very minimal impact on telecom towers. Major problems have been fibre cuts due to felling of trees that has led to some disruption and power outage has made the situation challenging,” industry body COAI Director General Rajan S Mathews said.

Mobile towers are connected to each other through optical fibre cables and any damage to them leads to the breakdown of the network.