After MondaySA国际影视传媒檚 internet and phone service outage caused potentially dangerous disruptions to critical communication lines between the NWT and almost a dozen small communities, the division announced Tuesday afternoon phone systems are up and running again.

On Monday night, warned the public that following the far-reaching outage, which downed internet, cable, home-phone and LTE services for several hours, calls made to NWT detachments and the Operational Communications Centre ( OCC) in Yellowknife could be met with interruptions. Police advised that calls made to local detachments might not even go through, with a risk callers  wouldnSA国际影视传媒檛 be transferred automatically to the OCC.

The disruptions impacted Tuktoyaktuk, Fort McPherson, Fort Good Hope, Tulita, Deline, Fort Liard, Fort Providence, Fort Resolution, Norman Wells, Behchoko and Whati, states MondaySA国际影视传媒檚 news release from .

The interruptions forced to tell people who may have needed to make calls related to an urgent, potentially life-threatening situations, to attend their local detachment in person to receive further instructions from police.

Following efforts from technicians and police partners to resolve the issue, stated Tuesday, SA国际影视传媒渢o the best of their knowledge, the phone systems for local detachment '1111' numbers are operating normally,SA国际影视传媒� including call transfers to OCC in Yellowknife, stated the news release.

spokesperson Marie York-Condon thanked territory residents for their patience SA国际影视传媒渁s we work to ensure call lines are operational.SA国际影视传媒�

continue to investigate MondaySA国际影视传媒檚 outage, which police believe was the result of vandalism to a fibre optic cable line.

A probe into another suspected act of vandalism, which took down Internet and phone communications for hours on July 13, remains active.

Police are investigating whether or not the two incidents are linked.