On the afternoon of October 28, 2020, after going inland to the provinces from Da Nang to Phu Yen, typhoon No. 9 weakened to a tropical depression but caused severe damage to Viettel's network.
According to calculations, storm No. 9 will affect nearly 4000 BTS broadcasting stations of 6 provinces. Nearly all units of Viettel with more than 1000 employees rushed into the affected areas to participate in the response. This is considered to be the largest mobilization of troops to respond to storms and floods of the Group since 2012. Thanks to that initiative, Viettel's network is still standing behind the storm.
Trees fell on the road, making it difficult to move to rescue, technicians had to cut each tree, clear the way to move.
About network infrastructure problemstyphoon No. 9 knocked over 03 BTS posts in Quang Ngai and Gia Lai, one station had a metal roof torn off in Quang Nam and divided 70 stations.
About information disruption, the total number of sales visits from the time of 00:00 ′ - 18:00 ′ on October 28 lost power 24330 locations, down 6908 locations and 22379 cabinets.
About transmission network, CĐBR network, typhoon No. 9 lost 748 transmission links in total and caused 25 broken trunks and branch cables.
Up to 15:00 on October 29, the effects of typhoon No.9 have basically been unrestrained, restoring communication for people, specifically: 1278 power outages causing information interruption 559 location. The technical force has overcome 750/1281 transmission problems, 19/43 broken cables, branches CĐBR..
Some photos of the response to storm information No. 9:
Although the wind is still very strong, technicians have immediately started working on UCTT
After the storm came in, perhaps the most worrying thing for the technical brothers was that the floods would come
... as for the VCC soldiers, they had to plunge into the storm, march to the stormy place, to be ready for UCTT.
More than 1 month ago, VCC technical forces across the country surrendered to consecutive storms and large-scale floods in Hue, Quang Tri, Quang Binh...
There are many comrades who have not been home for a long time
In the flood water, a glimpse of the figure of Viettel project is raining, not afraid of danger because of the network of people.