ANTONIO PEDRO SANTOS / LUSA
An E-REDES member carries out repairs on an electricity pole due to bad weather, in Soure (February)
More than two months after Kristin, there are still people without access to the Internet or television – and it could stay that way until the end of the month.
The effects of the storms that hit Portugal between the end of January and the beginning of February continue to be felt.
On the day, for example, throughout the continental territory, on Saturday night, a total of 167 thousand customers were without electricity.
However, according to , more than two months after the calamities – with special emphasis on the destructive storm Kristin, still in January -, still There are locations where communications continue to fail.
The television channel gives as an example that of the Tomar area (Santarém district), where there continues to be fallen communications poles and broken wires.
Even people for whom communications had already been restored were once again left without Internet and television, with resolution expected only at the end of April.
Despite service failures, there were telecommunications operators that, at least until March, continued to offer the same services, with some promising to full service replacement by… April 30.
