Viva Cell has announced mobile network accessibility issues in Yerevan, Armenia, caused by dual damage to a fiber optic cable. Emergency response teams are actively working to resolve the problem. While digging near Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, she accidentally struck a critical underground fibre optic cable that carried the majority of Armenia's internet traffic. ) accidentally cut off the internet for not just her own country but almost the entire nation of Armenia as well. This incident took place on March 28, 2011. The. There were news stories this week in the London Guardian and the Wall Street Journal (here and here) regarding a 75-year old Georgian woman by the name of Aishtan Shakarian who was scavenging for copper accidentally damaged with her shovel the international fiber-optic cable carrying 90% of. Periodic Internet outages have been recorded in the center of Yerevan for several days now - what is the reason for this? OVIO (formerly Rostelecom) informed @SputnikARM that this was due to damage to fiber optic cables. Now the mayor's office of the capital is restoring them.
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