The Eleutheran - Eleuthera News, Sport and much more from Eleuthera: Cable Service Interrupted by Lightning Strike

Cable Service Interrupted by Lightning Strike
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admin on 27 August, 2008 
 
Mr. Wisdom commented that, "we are Cable users ourselves”, expressing an
understanding of the need to deal with such an event as quickly as possible to
restore service, however, still explaining that the machinery had to be brought
back up in a certain way to regain full pre-event functionality.  He said that
Cable Bahamas has set protocols in place, which enabled them to begin working to
repair the machinery within an hour of the lightning strike hitting the
equipment. 
By Tuesday, Aug 26, Cable television service was said to be back up and running
in all affected islands, which included Abaco and Grand Bahama, with the
internet service in Eleuthera still down.  Internet service on the island was
back up on Tuesday evening.  However, according to Mr. Wisdom a further
technical glitch on Tuesday night threw several channel services out once again,
which Cable Bahamas is now working on to restore as soon as possible.