Atlantic telecommunications reliability under question after service failures during Fiona
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And that’s a main concern for Nova Scotia NDP leader Claudia Chender.
“I was really nervous. We have a lot of vulnerable seniors. For a lot of people living alone, communication is their lifeline.”
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Moore explained that once the batteries ran out, they had teams working to provide generator backups to the sites to restore services as quickly as possible.
Chender says that’s not good enough.
“We knew what was coming and Bell knew what was coming and Eastlink knew what was coming,” she said.
Chender is also calling for more transparency. Nova Scotia Power is required to provide information on power outages with estimated restoration times, telecommunication companies are not required to do anything similar and it’s unknown just how widespread service failures were during the storm and how many people remain without cell service.
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