Chris Lowrey
PONTIAC Oct. 19, 2017
Yet again, the communications infrastructure in the Pontiac went down after a work crew cut a fibre optic cable on Oct. 19 in the Quyon area.
The outage left vast swaths of the Pontiac without phone or internet service.

This has been an ongoing issue in the Pontiac as a similar outage left residents in a lurch on Sept 19.
According to the MRC, this was the sixth blackout of this kind in the last nine years.
During the recent Equity debate, the warden candidates decried the lack of redundancies in the region when it comes to fibre optic lines. They were also concerned about the ability of residents to contact emergency services should the need arise.
In an email to The Equity, Bell media relations officer Vanessa Damha said that service was disrupted by a third-party work crew and that service was restored that evening.
Neither Damha nor Bell responded to repeated questions about infrastructure upgrades in the area, who employed the work crew that caused the outage and what repercussions the company faces.