BTS Tower Damaged, Residents Had to Go to Dua Island to Get Network
access_time March 03 2016 12:18 PM remove_red_eye 1761
Reported by Suparni | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
Reported by Suparni | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
How ironic, until now, residents living in Sebira Island, Harapan Island, North Seribu Islands, cannot communicate remotely using a cellular phone. This is because a telecommunications network or Base Transceiver Station (BTS) on the island was struck by lightning in mid-January and has not been repaired.
Residents must go to Dua Island which is far from Sebira Island
Harapan Island Urban Village Head, Yuliardi disclosed that cellular phone communication in his region is disconnected.
Have No Building Permit, BTS Tower Demolished"Residents must go to Dua Island which is far from Sebira Island," he stated, Wednesday (3/2).
He expressed, the communication breakdown was due to BTS tower damaged since two months.
As for information, since last year, resident had asked the Seribu Islands Administration to build the tower. But it was failed in the auction.
