SaskTel logo. Photo courtesy SaskTel.
A planned outage to SaskTel landline, wireless and internet services in the province’s north is scheduled from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. on November 22.
Services will be disrupted in Brabant Lake, Black Lake, Butler Lake, Cigar Lake, Collins Bay, David Lake Rapids, Durrant Lake, Fond-du-Lac, Geikie River, Key Lake, McArthur River, McDonald Lake, McClean Lake, Sandy Bay, Sucker Lake, Southend, Stony Rapids and Wollaston Lake, as SaskTel operates on a damaged fibre cable.
SaskTel believes the damage occurred when the line was originally placed.
“We only discovered the damage recently when we were going to turn up some unused fibre in the cable,” said SaskTel representative, Greg Jacobs. “It looks like the damage to the fibre cable occurred when the fibre cable was installed originally.”
SaskTel is thanking people of northern Saskatchewan for their patience, understanding and is apologizing for any inconvenience this might cause.