Telstra fibre optic cable damaged in NSW storms

By Ry Crozier on Mar 23, 2011 12:01 AM
Filed under Telco/ISP

Updated: Cable reconnected at 3am.

Telstra has repaired a flood-damaged fibre optic cable on the NSW far south coast that cut landline access to the Triple Zero emergency network.

A Telstra spokesman told iTnews that the "storm-related transmission issues" at Telstra's Bega node had been fixed by 3am today.

The cables were "not working" between Bega and Eden, according to a statement by NSW Police issued about midnight last night.

The Force said it was working with Fire and Rescue NSW and NSW Ambulance to "minimise service disruption" on the back of the outage.

"Telstra technicians are working to repair any water damage and restore services as quickly as possible," Police had said.

"Mobile services are still functioning but landline customers will not be able to access the [emergency call] network."

A mobile alert system had been used to notify residents of the outage.

Telstra's official service status page did not record the outage, noting only some connection issues being experienced by customers around Albion Park and Dapto, near Wollongong - areas also hit by flash flooding from storms that swept across the state this week.

Telstra fibre optic cable damaged in NSW storms

2 comments in this discussion

"Well, no. generally fiber is much more resistant to water damage due to the fact that there the cable has glass in it rather than copper. I'd be more inclined to think that in this case the actual ..."

By Johnny

Tags

telstra, fibre, optic, cable, damage, flood, storm, nsw, south, coast, bega, eden

Telstra flies in crew to repair flood-damaged fibre

Telstra finishes South Brisbane fibre migration

NBN Co walks away from NSW power pole talks

Telstra exchange fire spread by cooling systems

Breaking Stories

Freedom Cable yanks Australia from subsea rollout

Optus kicks off TD-LTE network

Syrian hackers compromise FT website

Linfox crunches big data to keep trucks on time

Decoding NetSuite's anti-SAP bravado

Readers of this article also read...

Comments: 2

longsword Mar 23, 2011 8:48 AM	Welcome to the world post NBN any minor flooding will result in major outages.
Johnny Mar 26, 2011 11:01 PM	Well, no. generally fiber is much more resistant to water damage due to the fact that there the cable has glass in it rather than copper. I'd be more inclined to think that in this case the actual fiber is fine but the termination at either end has been water damaged (where light rays are converted into electrical signals).