NEW DELHI: Telco group COAI<\/a> on Tuesday condemned the continuous disruption of telecom services in Punjab<\/a> by agitating protesters and said that disruption is causing “immense inconvenience to the common man” for whom mobile services are highly essential, especially in the times of Covid-19 pandemic.
“While we respect people's right to protest on any issue, sabotaging the telecom network infrastructure and disrupting telecom services<\/a> as a form of protest by anyone is strongly condemned. Telecom services<\/a> are the lifeline of lakhs of customers, including students taking online classes, professionals working from home, people going in for online health consultations in the tough time of COVID 19,” said COAI<\/a> director-general SP Kochhar<\/a> in a statement.
Telecom services have been disrupted in Punjab as farmers protesting against the three new farm laws disconnected power supply and fibre connection to telecom towers, mostly belonging to or being used by Jio<\/a>.
The state government confirmed that 1561 mobile towers had been affected over the past few days and 146 of them were impacted since Monday morning due to disruption of power supply to 32 towers, which led to the disconnection of services of the remaining 114. 25 of these towers had been physically damaged, ET reported on 28 December.
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