TSTT says it is in­ves­ti­gat­ing a fire at a crit­i­cal ca­ble artery that has re­sult­ed in ser­vice in­ter­rup­tions to some of our cus­tomers. A re­lease from TSTT stat­ed, "An ini­tial as­sess­ment by TSTT strong­ly in­di­cates it was a ma­li­cious act. A fire ap­peared to have been set near this vi­tal arm of our net­work in­fra­struc­ture, re­sult­ing in ex­ten­sive dam­age to net­work ca­bles." 

With the sup­port of the fire ser­vices, the blaze was con­tained. The com­pa­ny says it is work­ing to re­store ser­vice in the short­est time pos­si­ble. Sev­er­al parts of south Trinidad will ex­pe­ri­ence a dis­rup­tion to their mo­bile, fixed line and broad­band ser­vices. 

"It is deeply trou­bling that this is the sec­ond in­ci­dent in ap­prox­i­mate­ly six months in this area. In Au­gust 2022, van­dals de­stroyed un­der­ground ca­bles at the same site re­sult­ing in $1m in dam­age and ex­ten­sive in­con­ve­nience to cus­tomers across the coun­try, with con­cen­trat­ed im­pact in South Trinidad. The com­pa­ny hopes that this mat­ter is in­ves­ti­gat­ed thor­ough­ly," TSTT said.