In plain English
The service works off and on instead of staying steady. It is usable for a while, then interrupted and unavailable again, with that pattern repeating rather than remaining continuously available.
In context
Here, "intermittent service" reports that the telecommunications service is working at some times and then repeatedly cutting out at others.
- Situation
- Responding to outages, degraded service, diagnostics, support tickets, and restoration updates
- What it communicates
- reports that the problem comes and goes.
Meaning limits
By itself, the term does not say how often the interruptions happen or what is causing them.
Examples
“The cabin had intermittent service all weekend, with calls connecting for a few minutes and then dropping again.”
“During the hike, intermittent service let one text through, then cut off the next two.”