(AGI) - Paris, 19 Dec. - More telecoms disruption between Europe and Asia follows another brak in underwater telephone lines. 10 months after the last event which blocked lines between the two continents, 3 underwater cables were severed on the bottom of the sea "for unknown reasons" between Sicily and Tunisia. France Telecom reported that "an attack is unlikely".
The company is sending a repair ship to the location but predicts that there will be problems during Christmas which may last up to the new year. Business volumes between Europe and Asia have been redirected on trans-oceanic lines to the USA. At present 65% of traffic with India is offline. The same goes for 59% of communications with Singapore, 44% with Malaysia, 55% with Saudi Arabia, 52% with Egypt, 39% with Taiwan and 51% with Pakistan.
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correct. when first time cable broken by earthquake in taiwan. they just silently install the throttle hardware to kill emule. so everyone though just only international line problem.
This post has been edited by capcomfly: Dec 21 2008, 03:27 PM
Downtime Undersea sub-cables have just broken..., Is the internet going down?
Dec 21 2008, 03:23 PM
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