Anger over nationwide telephone system breakdown

Mon, Aug 9th 2010, 06:19 AM

By REUBEN SHEARER
Tribune Staff Reporter
rshearer@tribunemedia.net

THE public responded with widespread outrage yesterday at the system-wide blackout of communication services, the first such disaster in the Bahamas Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) history.
The Tribune spoke to several businesspersons who said they lost money because of the outage.

The incident also sparked safety concerns with at least one person temporarily stranded without communication - a woman who had to drive home with a flat tyre because she couldn't use her cell phone to call for help.
Kirk Griffin, BTC's Acting President and CEO, assured BTC prepaid customers that there would be so ...

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