Through Jean-Marc Aubert
Published on 21 May 21 at 9:50 p.m.
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The Internet network with landlines and mobile telephony of the main operators are operating again this Friday evening in almost 137 municipalities of Biterrois and the upper cantons of Hérault cut off from the world since Thursday morning, like Metropolitan mentioned it here this morning. 69,000 subscribers thus paid the price for this gigantic failure.
Great relief
Good news before long weekend of Pentecost greeted with great relief, especially in remote rural areas, where even calls to emergency services -15, 17, 18 and 112- were not working, which caused great concern, as in the villages of the community of communes of the Grand Orb. The mayor of Lunas, Aurélien Manenc thus confirms the return to normal this evening. Ditto in Avène, where the first deputy mayor, Cédric Blanc is delighted, because he received a message from Sosh this morning telling him that the failure would not be repaired before this Saturday around noon, which was also confirmed by the operator Orange . The elected official is however pleased that Orange’s 4G has been operational, which has been positive for teleworking enthusiasts, lamenting, however, that the operator Orange has blocked its professional VPN from Forte Client …
Fifteen technicians
According to the regional management of Orange, during the demolition work of a building in Béziers Thursday morning, the excavator tore three fiber optic cables large capacity. An extremely rare incident, but which resulted in very significant damage. Fifteen technicians dispatched Thursday morning worked continuously, including last night, to reconstruct all of the severed pipes, wire after wire, cable after cable, a very long mission, which finally ended at the end of the afternoon, this Friday. In the evening, there was only a small area left to Capestang and around to be always private, fixed and mobile phone lines. Hello, but, hello what!
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