Salalah, June 2 (ONA) - The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), in coordination with the Basic Services Sector of the National Committee for Emergency Management, has followed up telecommunications services and telecommunications companies’ procedures since the onset of the tropical situation in Dhofar Governorate.

“The authority followed up the few and limited interruptions that occurred in the mobile communication networks of Omantel and Ooredoo as a result of the effects of the tropical situation in the governorate,” Engineer Mahmoud bin Omar Al-Zadjali, Director of the Department of Quality of Service and Comprehensive Service at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, said in a statement to Oman News Agency.

He explained that the latest update on the network status today indicates several interruptions in base transmission stations in Salalah (32 stations), Taqah (two stations), Mirbat (6 stations), Sadah (5 stations) Shalim and the Hallaniyat Islands (10 stations), Thumrait (3 stations) and Al-Mazyona (one station).

Al-Zadjali added that the main reason for the interruptions is the result of power outages from these stations and the interruption of some optical fiber cables that connect these stations with the main network as a result of heavy rains and torrential runoff in the valleys, where the maintenance teams of the licensed telecommunications companies are currently re-servicing as soon as possible.

He pointed out that the percentage of stations that continued to provide the service reached 93 percent, which contributed to the limited impact of the mobile communication service and there was no complete interruption of the telecommunications service in the governorate.

(ONA)