Hurricane Beryl: Flow reports 77% mobile population coverage; 24% of affected fixed service sites restored
Flow Jamaica says 77 per cent of its mobile customers have services while 24 per cent of affected fixed service sites have been restored as its technical teams continue restoration efforts following the passage of Hurricane Beryl across the island.
“We are continuing our efforts to restore services as we collaborate with the country’s main commercial electricity provider to get our customers impacted by the hurricane back online in the shortest possible time,” said Stephen Price, the communication provider’s vice president and general manager, in a release on Saturday.
Many of the areas experiencing service outages are communities where commercial power was lost during the storm, the release stated.
Among the parishes where services were mainly affected are Portland, Kingston and St Andrew, St Catherine, St Elizabeth, Manchester and St James, the company said, noting that 413 communities or 24 per cent of the 1,714 fixed service sites impacted by commercial power across the island have been restored to date –including sites in Kingston and St Andrew, St Catherine, and St James.
The communities where services have so far been restored include sections of the Corporate Area, sections of May Pen in Clarendon, sections of Portmore and Spanish Town in St Catherine and sections of Montego Bay, Sandy Bay, Bogue Hill, Unity Hall, Coral Gardens and Ironshore in St James, the company said.
According to the release, on its mobile network, the company has been able to restore 77 per cent population coverage up from 66 per cent in the aftermath of the hurricane.
It said the company’s technical teams will complete damage assessment and evaluation of areas impacted in coming days even as they effect restoration of services to even more communities. They will also continue topping up generators for major sites for areas affected by commercial power outages, according to the release.
In the meantime, the company said it has been facilitating charging of devices and other services via its Store on Wheels in the communities of Majesty Gardens, Denham Town, Seaview Gardens in Kingston and St Andrew; Mitchell Town and Portland Cottage in Clarendon and Flanker in St James.
On Sunday, it said the Store on Wheels will visit Mitchell Town and Portland Cottage in Clarendon.
