Internet still not working in Asia after an earthquake
I’m pretty happy living here in the Europe, but the latest news coming from Asia would make me a little upset to say the least. Several ships were on their way Thursday to repair regional telecommunications cables broken by an earthquake off southern Taiwan, but officials warned that it could take several more days before Internet access across much of Asia returned to normal. Fixed-line and mobile international telephone connections were largely back on line, two days after the quake, with a magnitude of 6.7 – property damage was limited, but six of seven undersea cable systems, accounting for 90 percent of telecommunications capacity of the region, broke “one by one” in the quake and its aftershocks.
The cables link countries in North and Southeast Asia to one another and to North America, and the disruption has underscored the vulnerability of the telecommunications infrastructure that the fast-growing region depends on for commercial activity. Most telecommunications companies were able to restore international voice calls Thursday by rerouting traffic to satellites and to cables unaffected by the earthquake.
By the way, these cables are worth billions of dollars and are often longer than 11 000 miles in length, so imagine how difficult it must be to find the damaged area. Could you even imagine living without the internet nowadays?
Comments(24)
internet is perfectly working in India without any problems
Who mentioned India??
lol
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no i can’t imagine days without access.
the occasional hours of disconnect are worse enough and i can at least blame my ISP or myself for it. :S
lol i am in asia with internet where did u get this news?
It’s NOT perfectly working in India, BSNL DataOne connections are down in many areas, my friend is getting 3kBps speeds on his DataOne connection
I think that they should update the infrastructure to prevent such breakdowns.It’s a good opportunity to do so rather than replacing the weak ones.
Well, all the torrent sites I visit are still online, so no problem here
If it meant no spam for a week, cut the darn wires!
NO INTERNET .. damn that would be nice , more time spent in the fresh air. God all i want for new years is an earthquake in Southern CAli.. sincerely West. ty
I would cry and cry and cry……
hi, I am living and working in China and I am happy that I, by now, can reach this site again. It really sucked and right after the earthquake, for about 12 hours the only websites that have been working were all Google services. By now we are almost back to normal, but still some websites in Europe or the USA are slow due to the limited bandwidth still available in and out of large parts of Asia.
happy new year! :p
Chinks and yellow Asians in general don’t even deserve the Internet, they invented fuck all. It’s easy to copy western technology and use it 10 years after the rest of us.
But whay would you expect from them
Hey english, wanna banana? ugh ugh ugh
In reply to the previous English,
You should watch your messed up mouth! Bet your some punk-ass b!tch who probably got ripped-off by some rogue trader off ebay, hence the sour-grapes. To say that Asians have never invented nothing clearly demonstrates your level of IQ and age. Maybe you should try growning a brain before making pointless unconstructive comments…
Peace
Hey English, is ur dad an Asian? And does he beat u up everyday?
im in south china, internet still not working properly here, I can barely access any european site for example.
Suxxx…
Peace
Yeah internet is still fucked in china, downloading is a bitch, 10kb/s max and im used to above 100kb/s, hope they work that shit out soon.
heh. internet’s a seriously screwed up thing for me in Malaysia right now. my bittorent downloads are barely even CONNECTED, and those that do, which is only 1, runs at 1-6kbps at good times. what the heck?
no internet hard to be accessories, lost of things, & businesses!
hope in the next time there wont be a problem.
iNTERNET IN CHINA IS USELESS U CANT GET PORN AND SEE ALL THE SITES U WANT CAUSE SOME GOVERNMENT CHINESE DUDE CONTROLS THE PAGES BEFORE lololllll “THIS IS GOOD THIS IS NOT GOOD”
Almost a month on, and the net is still pretty much toast where I am in northern China.
Just think of all the money that will be lost to those people trying to pirate western movies and .MP3’s… it’s such a shame.
Fuck you all, everyone on earth
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