Damaged Internet picks up pace
By Zhu Shenshen |
August 19, 2009, Wednesday
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INTERNET users in Shanghai found yesterday that international cyber connections, which slowed significantly on Monday due to storm and quake damage to undersea telecommunications cables, began to flow a little faster.
China Telecom, which operates the country's biggest fixed-line network, reported that about 60 percent of its international connections were back on line by 7pm yesterday as a result of emergency efforts that included the use of backup lines.
International telecom capacity will be restored to 75 percent of normal levels by tomorrow, a level that should meet basic demand, China Telecom said.
"We have started emergency measures like using backup lines and renting cable capacity from overseas carriers," China Telecom said in a statement.
As of yesterday, the restored capacity was enough to meet most personal telecommunications demand, but more time is needed to get service for businesses back up to adequate levels.
The Shanghai branch of China Telecom said earthquakes on Monday and earlier undersea landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot had damaged nine undersea cables southeast of Taiwan.
Five of the cables are used by China Telecom to support phone and Internet services from the Chinese mainland to Taiwan, the United States, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
China Unicom, another major telecoms operator, said on Monday that the breakdown of a key cable for northeast Asia had caused disruption to services from China to the United States and Europe.
The chain of events that led to the disruption began last Wednesday, when Typhoon Morakot snapped a cable between Hong Kong and Taiwan. Telecom services were unaffected at the time as a backup cable remained intact, China Unicom said. But the backup was damaged near Busan, South Korea, at 2:20pm on Monday by earthquakes that rocked Japan and Taiwan Island.
The Chinese carriers didn't provide a timetable when all the cables would be fixed and service fully restored.
China Telecom, which operates the country's biggest fixed-line network, reported that about 60 percent of its international connections were back on line by 7pm yesterday as a result of emergency efforts that included the use of backup lines.
International telecom capacity will be restored to 75 percent of normal levels by tomorrow, a level that should meet basic demand, China Telecom said.
"We have started emergency measures like using backup lines and renting cable capacity from overseas carriers," China Telecom said in a statement.
As of yesterday, the restored capacity was enough to meet most personal telecommunications demand, but more time is needed to get service for businesses back up to adequate levels.
The Shanghai branch of China Telecom said earthquakes on Monday and earlier undersea landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot had damaged nine undersea cables southeast of Taiwan.
Five of the cables are used by China Telecom to support phone and Internet services from the Chinese mainland to Taiwan, the United States, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
China Unicom, another major telecoms operator, said on Monday that the breakdown of a key cable for northeast Asia had caused disruption to services from China to the United States and Europe.
The chain of events that led to the disruption began last Wednesday, when Typhoon Morakot snapped a cable between Hong Kong and Taiwan. Telecom services were unaffected at the time as a backup cable remained intact, China Unicom said. But the backup was damaged near Busan, South Korea, at 2:20pm on Monday by earthquakes that rocked Japan and Taiwan Island.
The Chinese carriers didn't provide a timetable when all the cables would be fixed and service fully restored.
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