Brief Nightmare

Sabah's communications to be fully restored on Sunday

2009/07/29

SANDAKAN: The telephone and internet traffic breakdown here as well as in Kinabatangan and Beluran is expected to be fully restored on Sunday.

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) Sabah general manager Sukkriya Masri said communications were restored in stages since yesterday with priority given to essential services like hospitals, the police, the fire and rescue department, and the Sandakan airport.

He said banks were able to carry out transactions since yesterday while internet connection was expected to be restored this afternoon.

Repair work was being carried out round-the-clock to replace defective equipments by getting the replacements from Kota Kinabalu, Tawau and Kuala Lumpur.

Fire broke out at the TM Main Exchange at Mile 2, Jalan Utara here last Monday, causing a massive communication disruption along the east coast of Sabah.

"We brought some equipment from Kuala Lumpur by a chartered plane," he told reporters after receiving Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong at TM office here today. - BERNAMA

taken from NST Online

As stated above, the whole city went offline just like that due to the fire at TM Exchange last Monday.. it was totally unexpected, and you can imagine the chaos it had caused! Banks, ATMs, fixed lines, internet connections, government sectors - every service in Sandakan was interrupted. People couldn't withdraw money, credit cards couldn't be used, the fixed lines couldn't be connected and the list goes on. They estimated that it'll be fully restored in one week's time, but it's Wednesday and everything is already back to normal. Thumbs up to those people who've worked hard to fix this mess! Sandakan, ONLINE! (temporary? let's hope not)

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