The Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company will turn off Internet service and long-dsitance phone calls for no longer than an hour beginning at 2 a.m. Tuesday.

The temporary shutdown must be done for maintenance work that will allow future bandwidth capacity. The change will allow more bandwidth to be added in the future that will increase Internet speed and download times.

Laura Zu-Hone, an ICTC spokesperson, said the time frame for network improvement is over the next couple of years. ICTC is the Internet service provider to Eastern, which then uses an on-campus network.

The alteration will only increase the size of capacity, but not the actual speed, Zu-Hone said.

“The work should have very little customer impact,” Zu-Hone said. “Don’t expect to be looking for an immediate change (to internet speed), this is long-term maintenance.”

Although Zu-Hone could not give exact details of the work, she said it would be minor.

“We just want to let customers know just in case they like to get on the Internet late at night,” she said.