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BRIEF: Temporary outages on horizon for GCI
Sep 13, 2009 (Anchorage Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Alaska telecom company GCI said its cable TV, Internet and long-distance phone customers could experience temporary outages from Oct. 6 through Oct. 19.
"These semiannual interruptions, called sun outages or transits, affect all satellite-based communications. When the sun, satellite and Earth-based antenna line up, the noise energy from the sun is often greater than the communication signal level and may result in loss of signal," GCI said.
Customers could find long-distance calls in particular might be disrupted. Traffic on fiber-optic cables and microwave systems won't be affected, the company said.
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