Slow Internet For Another Month
Submitted by admin on January 17, 2007 - 10:08pm.As if internet dependent industries in Asia haven't lost considerable amount of productivity and revenue from the damaged submarine data cables, newly discovered damage to the cables leaves us no choice but to lose more productivity.
Newly discovered earthquake damage to undersea cables and bad weather could delay the complete restoration of Asian Internet services until next month, telecom officials said Wednesday.
A spokesman for Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom said engineers had found new damage to cables servicing China, putting back repairs by about a week. Via ABS-CBN Interactive
My broadband provider now uses the "taiwan quake" excuse everytime.
