What's the plan when TT goes offline
The Telecommunications Authority of TT (TATT) offices at Eighth Street Ext, Barataria. PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI -
Minister of Public Administration and Digital Transformation Allyson West on Tuesday in the Senate described this week’s crippling internet outage as “a bit of Murphy’s Law.” In other words, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
But Ms West nonetheless gave three reasons why things did go as they did.
Replying to urgent questions from Independent Senator Paul Richards, she said the first issue was an initial breakage in Antigua. Secondly, the backup or redundancy in Curacao had gone haywire. Thirdly, she said covid19 caused a delay in efforts to address the initial problem.