Internet services in many parts of Pune are down and will be down for a real long time as PMC has cut all cables which were hung on the electricity poles. Sadly most ISP/LCO/MSO rely on these electric poles to run their cables to long distances.
Since last week or so PMC have created teams which go in various areas in a crane mounted in a truck. They simply cut all cables on the poles with a big cutter. Another tempo follows behind which picks all the cut cables and put them in the tempo ....
I heard they have cut more than 100kms of cables in last week.
My ISP is only 300mtrs from my building but worst part is that input line itself is disconnected in this exercise and now I am relying on wireless services like Vodafone 3G and Tata Photon Max.
This is no small repair and will take months to restore connectivity. Infact first everyone needs to take permission from PMC(Pay heavily) for laying cables underground.
I read that in some areas they even cut all OFC which was running through the drains. This meant that companies like IDEA and BSNL which paid for laying those cables also got hit :-o
Links to news articles.
Mid-Day
Sakal
Sakal Last week
Since last week or so PMC have created teams which go in various areas in a crane mounted in a truck. They simply cut all cables on the poles with a big cutter. Another tempo follows behind which picks all the cut cables and put them in the tempo ....
I heard they have cut more than 100kms of cables in last week.
My ISP is only 300mtrs from my building but worst part is that input line itself is disconnected in this exercise and now I am relying on wireless services like Vodafone 3G and Tata Photon Max.
This is no small repair and will take months to restore connectivity. Infact first everyone needs to take permission from PMC(Pay heavily) for laying cables underground.
I read that in some areas they even cut all OFC which was running through the drains. This meant that companies like IDEA and BSNL which paid for laying those cables also got hit :-o
Links to news articles.
Mid-Day
Sakal
Sakal Last week