Over 7,000 cut off from outside world, can’t make phone calls in Sarawak

BA’KELALAN: More than 7,000 people from 12 settlements in Long Sukang highlands in the state constituency are cut off from the outside world because they have no phone facilities.  

This is despite the fact that the Government had already constructed a 50m-high telecommunication tower in Long Sukang that is located about two and a half hours by timber road from the nearest urban centre of Lawas town.