Poor Planning Doubles El Niño Damage to Telecommunications Sector

The regional director of regulation for the southwest, noting the approaching El Niño phenomenon, said the bitter experience of past floods in the southwest shows that weak forecasting and planning can cause irreparable damage to telecommunications, a vital infrastructure.

The Director General of the Regulatory Authority of the Southwest region of the country, referring to the upcoming El Nino phenomenon, said: The bitter experience of past floods in the Southwest region of the country shows that weakness in forecasting and planning can cause irreparable damage to the communication system as a vital infrastructure at the time of occurrence.