An update on the repair of the earthqauke damaged fiber-optic cables

An update on the repair of the earthqauke damaged fiber-optic cables
Feb 5, 2007 15:36
ROGERINCA Points: Join Date: Jun 28, 2005 Status: offline	China's internet "basically restored" after Taiwan earthquake: February 1, 2007 China's top two internet operators - China Telecom and China Netcom, have announced that overseas communication services disrupted by the earthquake at sea area of Taiwan last month are now "basically restored". With the major underwater cable connecting China with North America repaired, internet users will see that things are back to normal, sources with China Telecom, the country's largest telecom operator, told Xinhua News. Users have seen improved internet access, saying sites they couldn't log onto for a month are accessible again, but some foreign websites are still slow. A 100-percent recovery is still about one to two weeks away (mid February) when all cables will have been fixed, including the Hong Kong-Taiwan section of the FNAL, the APCN2 linking China, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore. Communications on these cables have been rerouted via alternative systems or land-line cables meaning slower website access, China Telecom said. Problems encountered, have been some bad weather and rough seas in the region where the repair vessels are operating, as well as the depth of the ocean in the vicinity of the affected cables, coupled with more extensive damage than first thought.

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China's internet "basically restored" after Taiwan earthquake:

February 1, 2007

China's top two internet operators - China Telecom and China Netcom, have announced that overseas communication services disrupted by the earthquake at sea area of Taiwan last month are now "basically restored".

With the major underwater cable connecting China with North America repaired, internet users will see that things are back to normal, sources with China Telecom, the country's largest telecom operator, told Xinhua News.

Users have seen improved internet access, saying sites they couldn't log onto for a month are accessible again, but some foreign websites are still slow.

A 100-percent recovery is still about one to two weeks away (mid February) when all cables will have been fixed, including the Hong Kong-Taiwan section of the FNAL, the APCN2 linking China, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Communications on these cables have been rerouted via alternative systems or land-line cables meaning slower website access, China Telecom said.

Problems encountered, have been some bad weather and rough seas in the region where the repair vessels are operating, as well as the depth of the ocean in the vicinity of the affected cables, coupled with more extensive damage than first thought.

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