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Power deficit knocks more than 100 Camagüey cell sites offline

ETECSA’s territorial director warned that simultaneous outages at those sites overload the ones that remain in service.

ByMalecón90 Newsroom
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More than 100 of Camagüey’s 179 cell sites can be out of service at the same time because of the lack of electricity, limiting mobile communications, said ETECSA territorial director Luel García Lorenzo.

García Lorenzo said the fixed infrastructure also has problems: three-quarters of it is obsolete, 12 kilometers of lead cable remain in use, and between 60 and 70 percent of the wiring has been operating for more than 30 years.

ETECSA is making investments in the province in response and installed 28 photovoltaic systems between March and September. Some of those systems allow 4G service to be provided during the day.

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