PLDT’s services knocked off in many areas
Scenes of widespread destruction of properties in a community become evident when one sees cables toppled electric and telephone poles strewn on the streets.
But for both services, it can only mean huge daily losses in revenues.
For the Dagupan branch office of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., the fallen posts and cables translate to P200,000 loss in daily income.
Across the province, 12,566 lines have been brought down, with the city being the worst hit with 8,000 lines.
Dagupan lists 10,000 subscribers.
The telephone company’s woes are aggravated by the absence of power in its area. Since its digital loop cabinets are inoperable it can only rely on 21 generator sets operating from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily to charge its batteries in order to restore services in some areas.
As an added contingency, Gerardo Marquez, PLDT branch manager PLDT, said subscribers in some areas have been temporarily provided with sim packs for access to PLDT’s wireless services.
He said the company is unable to project how long it would take to restore all lines but judging from the calamity that hit the province ten years ago, it took PLDT 45 days to completely restored services.
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