Broken Undersea Cable Snaps Internet Access in ChinaMillions of people across China were unable to access much of the Internet Friday after an undersea cable was severed, and an official at China Telecom said it could take 10 days to fix the problem.Internet users in major mainland cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, said they were unable to access overseas Web sites, but could visit some Chinese addresses. "The broken segment of the fibre optic cable will probably take eight to 10 days to fix," said an official at the China Telecom Data Bureau. The phone operator, which plans a multi-billion dollar stock listing in Hong Kong and New York this year, was scrambling to divert Web traffic through satellites and other channels to alleviate the crash, she said. Taiwan reported that a cable break had prevented most of its Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from connecting users to servers off the island. It was not immediately clear if the same cable break caused the problems on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. source: chinadaily.com.cn |
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