PORT-AU-PRINCE: Two telecommunication companies in Haiti said their fiber optic cables were severed this week, temporarily leaving customers without service in what were suspected acts of sabotage by criminal gangs. 'LAWLESS' HAITI PLAGUED BY CORRUPTION AND DEADLY GANG VIOLENCE FUELS HUMANITARIAN CRISIS Digicel. This report was prepared by Mr. Gregory Domond under the direction of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) Connect2Recover initiative and the ITU Area Office for the Caribbean in close coordination with the ITU BDT Environment and Emergency. Mobile phone company DIGICEL has reported a significant disruption to its services in the Martissant area due to a fiber optic cable being severed. This issue is primarily a result of the insecurity prevailing in this hard-to-reach zone. Responding to this incident, DIGICEL has promptly mobilized. Haiti – Damaged optical fiber : Digicel teams brave the danger and repair29/04/2024 10:20:10 Sunday April 26, in a note, Digicel informs all of its customers, and the public in general, that “as of April 27, 2020, the company suffered several attacks against its international fiber optic. Digicel Haiti, one of Haiti's biggest telecom companies, said one of its cables was cut on Thursday in the community of Martissant near the capital of Port-au-Prince, considered ground zero for warring gangs. The cable affects customers in Haiti's western region, and it also had been severed. With thousands of doctors, nurses, aid workers and troops descending on Port-au-Prince in the last week to join more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) already there, reporters on the ground have observed that the damage done to the telecommunications infrastructure is hampering.
