Aitutaki mobile service enhanced - August 2010

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23.08.2010

COOK ISLANDS, Rarotonga, Aug. 23, 2010 — Telecom Cook Islands announced today that it has completed the restoration of mains power to the Maunga Pu cell site, and installed a new cabinet to house the cellular equipment at the site. The new cabinet is more efficient and has a built in air conditioner which will provide for a more reliable service.

Chief Technology Officer Robert McFadzien is overseeing the project. “Yesterday we got started on shifting the Maunga Pu cellsite to the cabinet formerly used at the hospital cellsite. The migration went very well, once we had the new cabinet in place and powered up, we moved the cellsite equipment into it which allowed us to work on stripping down the old cabinet and moving the replacement which we knew would take a lot of time as the new one is much heavier than the old”.

“This job is now complete, which means better overall cellular coverage” he added. “Coverage tests are to be conducted this afternoon”.

CEO Jules Maher had this to say “Our Cellular team completed this job about 5PM on Sunday and are very happy it’s finished. Our Mobile Network team has invested a huge amount of time and effort into getting Aitutaki’s cellular service effectively up and operational. We have invested about $150,000 to get this done and it should go a long way to help the economy of Aitutaki.

“We realise good business can’t be conducted without good communications” concluded Maher.
With the completion of this work, Aitutaki Cellular Service now is now on par with Rarotonga.

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