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Line fails under Dowse works
By Joel Maxwell

Hundreds of metres of phone cable fails under Dowse flyover ? lines company says works a ?contributing factor?. Hundreds of residents and businesses were left with dead phone lines for days last week as a cable running under the Dowse interchange in the Western Hutt Road failed. Telecommunications lines company Chorus was forced to replace about 270 metres of cable weighing more than three tonnes to fix the fault. Chorus spokesman Robin Kelly said the underground cable fault was probably not directly related to the interchange works going on above. ?The fault happened under the flyover construction but we don?t believe the flyover construction was the direct contributor to the fault. ?It might have been a contributing factor,? he said. Mr Kelly said at least 500 telecommunications customers were connected to the decades-old cable, with 320 suffering problems ranging from a buzzing line to complete disconnection. Dowse Drive man Raj Thomson said he was cut off completely from last Tuesday to Thursday. Mr Thomson was originally told the problem was in his home and he could expect a technician between 10am and 2pm on Wednesday. After waiting all day he rang his phone company Telecom, by cell phone, and was belatedly told the problem could be in a cable at the interchange. He was told he could be without a landline and internet access until Saturday ? but he should keep checking his phone every couple of hours. Mr Thomson was unhappy he was left to wait for the technician that was never going to turn up. He was not pleased Telecom had still not told him what caused the fault ? pointing out people such as the elderly need phones and should have been informed about the problem. Mr Kelly said staff had worked incredibly hard to fix the fault ? running a replacement length of cable through a spare underground pipe. The line was reconnected about 3am last Thursday - hours ahead of the expected time, he said. He could not confirm where the affected customers came from on both sides of the works.

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