Airtel service affected
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 10 2011:
Airtel subscribers in the outskirt of greater Imphal areas have been affected following shut down of Airtel towers effective from early today.
The operation of the towers has been suspended following a decision of the caretakers of the mobile phone service operators on Saturday.
The decision to stop operation of the towers was related with the extortion threat posed by a group of KCP to the Airtel company.
Failure on the part of the company, activists of the KCP group has been targeting caretakers of the towers of the service providers in the last few months.
The group renewed its threats on April 8 .
All Manipur Airtel Workers' Union had yesterday, announced that the operation of the towers will be suspended with immediate effect until an problem facing by them is settled.