Whitehorse Daily Star

Companies probe cellphone disruptions

Bell Mobility customers may be having trouble making and receiving cellphone calls in downtown Whitehorse .

By Whitehorse Star on June 22, 2011

Bell Mobility customers may be having trouble making and receiving cellphone calls in downtown Whitehorse .

The company undertook planned work Monday night on its system.

Since then, intermittent cell phone outages have been reported.

"It seems to be affecting some customers, and others not at all,” Emily Younker, a Northwestel Inc. spokeswoman, said this morning.

Northwestel technicians are working with Bell Mobility today to find the source of interference that is causing the problem.

Northwestel had no other information on the disruption before press time early this afternoon.

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Michel Dupont on Jun 24, 2011 at 1:33 am

As much as an inconvenience to Yukoners to experience re-occurring outages, be it power, phone, internet, it is a novelty to all outsiders.

Maybe we should bank on that to attract visitors. The only place in a developed country where visitors can experience first hand the hardship of third world countries.

We can call it "EXTREME YUKON EXPERIENCE"

and offer a guarantee that they won't be disappointed.

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victor on Jun 22, 2011 at 1:58 pm

Cause of disruption = Its northwestel... Bigger and bigger bills, poor service

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