http://telecompk.net/2006/12/20/big-phone-firms-delve-undersea-for-asian-growth/ A blog about telecommunication marketplace in Pakistan with news, information, analysis and trends Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:49:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://telecompk.net/2006/12/20/big-phone-firms-delve-undersea-for-asian-growth/#comment-199 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:42:44 +0000 http://telecompk.net/?p=63#comment-199 [...] Asia Quake Disrupts Telecom The earthquake of this week damaged the telecom and internet infrastructure, impacting many Asian countries. Banking services were severely hampered Wednesday but services had resumed Thursday after networks were reconfigured to detour around the broken cables. In June 2005 Pakistan’s only undersea fiber-optic cable link with the outside world at that time developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, for 11 days. See my previous post on Pakistan’s new undersea project. [...] [...] Asia Quake Disrupts Telecom The earthquake of this week damaged the telecom and internet infrastructure, impacting many Asian countries. Banking services were severely hampered Wednesday but services had resumed Thursday after networks were reconfigured to detour around the broken cables. In June 2005 Pakistan’s only undersea fiber-optic cable link with the outside world at that time developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, for 11 days. See my previous post on Pakistan’s new undersea project. [...]

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