Sitka back online after undersea cable repaired

GCI notified Sitka customers by text message Sept. 16 that it had successfully restored cell phone and internet services which had been disrupted for more than two weeks by a fiber optic cable break on the bottom of Salisbury Sound.

The break in the cable on Aug. 29 shut down GCI’s internet service and also affected texting and phone service.

Company spokesman Josh Edge said Sept. 16 the cause of the break still wasn’t known. The undersea cable repair ship was headed back to its homeport of Victoria, British Columbia.

The repair work started Sept. 8 when the ship, the Cable Innovator, arrived...

 

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