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Friday, March 16, 2001, updated at 14:19(GMT+8)

Severed Undersea Cable Snaps Internet Access
Cable Reparation Kicks off

The US$10 million restoration of a troubled and critical China-US Internet cable near the mouth of the Yangtze River began yesterday, said an official with the East China Sea Branch of the State Oceanographic Bureau in Shanghai.

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Cable Reparation Kicks off
The US$10 million restoration of a troubled and critical China-US Internet cable near the mouth of the Yangtze River began yesterday, said an official with the East China Sea Branch of the State Oceanographic Bureau in Shanghai.
 


Repair of US-China Cable Begins
The repair of the US-China undersea fiber optic cable, damaged Friday night for the second time in a month, was initiated Monday.
 


Undersea Telecom Cable Linking China to US Cut Again: Report
An undersea telecommunications cable linking China with the United States has been cut for the second time in little more than a month, state media said on Sunday.
 


Severed US-China Cable Partially Restored
The US-China undersea fiber optic cable, once again severed Friday night, has been partially restored, China Telecom said in Beijing Saturday.
 


China Telecom Refuses to Compensate Customers
The two-week saga of the broken segment of the undersea fibre-optic cable seemed to end when repairs were completed Last Friday, but according to a report from chinadaily.com.cn, the scuffle over whether the cable's operators should redress customers' losses caused by the rupture still goes on.
 


Broken Cable Fixed, Internet Access Restored
The broken undersea cable linking Shanghai to the west coast of the United States was fixed this afternoon, and Internet access was restored at 7:05 PM after a trial connection.
 


One-Third Capacity of Severed US-China Cable Restored
China Telecom said that 30 percent of its 930 megabyte transfer capacity has been restored following the severing of an underwater fiber optic cable, thanks to two rented emergency satellite circuits to link China with the United States and the use of a range of traffic re-routing measures.
 


Japanese Ship Arrives at Shanghai on Undersea Cable Repair Mission
A Japanese "KDD Ocean Link" ship, on its mission to repair the severed US-China undersea fiber optic cable, arrived at Shanghai on Wednesday morning.
 


Satellite Channels Help Ease Web Traffic
Chinese net buffs frustrated by a cable break last Friday could find their overseas cyber traffic improving thanks to increasing back-up efforts, but complete recovery is expected to take a couple of weeks.
 


Chunghwa Telecom Compensates Users for Undersea Cable Breaking
Millions of Internet surfers from China's mainland, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong received an extremely slow response or none at all when they visited websites in the United States over the weekend.
 


Severed US-China Cable Expected to Resume Operation in 10 Days
China Telecom on Monday said that the severed US-China undersea telecommunications cable is expected to return to normal operation on February 23.
 


Ruptured Undersea Cable to Be Repaired in Two Weeks
The broken segment of the undersea fibre optic cable between China and the United States, which has troubled Internet and telephone services in the Asia-Pacific region, will be fixed within two weeks.
 


Broken Undersea Cable Snaps Internet Access in China
Millions 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.
 






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