St. Maarten Cable TV today announces another step in the final phase of the upgrade to an all-digital platform. On Saturday, January 14, 2012, both Cable TV and CableNet customers will experience periodic service interruptions between the hours of 1:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m.
This outage has been scheduled to allow the technical team to relocate the fiber to the new building. Cable TV engineers anticipate a complete outage that will affect all services for approximately one hour. Subsequently, there will be 30-minute outages in individual areas for the remainder of the projected outage period.
Beulah Jonis, Managing Director of St. Maarten Cable TV stated, "With the migration to the digital platform, technical changes must be made and since we have an existing network with subscribers, the outages are inevitable. We are, however, making every effort to minimize the service disruption by not scheduling the outage during a peak time of day."
"St. Maarten Cable TV apologizes for the inconvenience this outage may cause our subscribers and we are continuously grateful for the patience that you have exhibited throughout out the process," concluded Jonis.