Quintillion says repairs to the cable can’t happen until sea ice opens up enough for a repair vessel to get through.
Repairs to a damaged fiber optic cable affecting internet and cellular services to much of Western Alaska will now take longer than initially anticipated, according to Alaska-based communications company Quintillion.
The company plans to begin repair operations Aug. 9-22, if the area is 90% free of ice. In a statement published July 14, Quintillion said a repair vessel would be in the North Slope community of Wainwright by the middle of August on standby for when the ice opened up.“The ice is really on the critical path,” he said. “It looks like right now that the ice is cooperating with us, and moving as expected, in some cases, even faster than expected.
“We’ll take some risk mitigation steps to make it even more durable than it was. We buried it below the seabed floor, we will do that, again, we may use concrete to cover the trails,” he said.
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