Fire breaks out in BSNL’s Almora office, mobile services hit

A

fire

broke out in the optical fibre cable (OFC) room of BSNL’s

Almora

Exchange due to short circuit late on Tuesday night. Following the accident, the mobile and internet communication facilities of BSNL got interrupted in four districts — Almora, Pithoragarh,

Champawat

and Bageshwar— of Kumaon region. Banking facilities, individuals, and other Internet-related businesses suffered due to the disruption in mobile services in these districts.

The fire brigade controlled the fire in the night itself but the officials informed that the fibre cables of the OFC room had got burnt to a severe degree. They added that they are still estimating the damage done due to the accident.

“To resume services at the earliest possible, new fibre cables are being temporarily laid on every section. Traffic is being transferred from one system to another. Services in Almora town have been restored and it is expected that the issue will be sorted in other districts by Wednesday night,” Kaushal Joshi, Junior Engineer, BSNL Almora, told TOI.


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