Telecom Failures Deepen Isolation of Haiti’s Southern Region

For more than four weeks, a communication problem has isolated the Greater South from the rest of the country. The cause: the severing of one of Digicel’s underground cables. This situation has further plunged the population of this region into isolation, while it was already cut off from the rest of the country due to inaccessible roads.

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On Sunday, July 27, residents of the Greater South suddenly lost access to most services of Digicel, the local leader in telecommunications. For several months, these outages have become recurrent. During the first six months of 2025, the company experienced no fewer than four major breakdowns, some of which lasted for several days. Each time, the company’s CEO, Jean Philippe Brun, cited “cuts to international fiber optic cables.”

However, the outage of July 27 stands out from the others because of its duration, e

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