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Did you see this story from yesterday? Let the good times roll!
Telecommunication operators and Internet users need to wait longer to get normal access as the authority said Tuesday the damage on undersea cables caused by earthquake last month is more serious than previous estimated.According to the latest estimation Tuesday by the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) of Hong Kong, the quake damage on cables is more serious than the preliminary survey and therefore the repair work on one of the major cables will need about two weeks instead of the previous estimation of one week.
It said the Taiwan earthquake on Dec. 26 caused damage on about 300 kilometers seabed, breaking six undersea cables from Hong Kong to Europe and North America that threatened the telecommunication network to paralyze.
The authority said repair teams on the spot are trying to resume the work of the cable system and at the same time to enlarge the load of the only cable survived the earthquake to ease the demand of telecommunication.
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Sam Sweet: [Tape of his phone call to the police] Oh my God! Oh my God! My twin brother has been shot! I think it was an Asian gang or something... There was this guy, he looked Asian... and he was speaking another language, I'm pretty sure it was... Asian.
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Well, according to people living in HK and Taiwan, the internet there is quite back to normal. Let the rumors begin. Could it be, Beijing is quite happy about the current situation, since they now have less "unwanted" content to worry about?
It's hard to believe it takes the Internet guys so long to reroute all overseas traffic through other available links (which are available), just as it's hard to believe that all overseas traffic from China was going through some cables 25 kms off Taiwanese coast.
The current situation is much worse than it was on 28th, 29th.
p.s.: It took our IT guy here in Shanghai two phone calls to the ISP to get our VPN to our HQ in Germany back to full speed, plus reroute all our Internet traffic through it (no, we are just a small company)