Earthquake damages internet/phonelines in Asia

**rainboy** · 12-27-2006, 06:13 AM

Earthquake damages internet/phonelines in Asia

Some of our users are experiencing very slow internet connectivity. This is due the earthquake which did strike Taiwan last Tuesday. I guess there are more customers from the Asian region, so the below is most likely the cause...

Repairing the cables harmed by Tuesday's tremor could take three weeks but "quality will improve day by day," said Lin Jen-hung, vice general manager of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's largest phone company.

The damage to the two lines, located in the south, cut off 50 percent to 60 percent of Chunghwa's overall telephone capacity, the company said. Most severely affected were connections to China, Japan and Southeast Asia, it said.

Also hard hit was telephone service to the U.S., where 60 percent of capacity was lost, the company said.

Chunghwa also said 98 percent of Taiwan's communications capacity with Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong was disrupted.

Read the complete AP news article here.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n2299641.shtml

Kindest regards,
Patrick