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Taiwan Earthquakes Interrupts Telecommunications Across Asia

If you experienced interruptions of phone and web services in Asia, you are not alone. The recent strong earthquakes in Taiwan damaged a few undersea cables. Repairing the undersea cables will take two to three weeks.

Jaring and TMnet had also make related announcements on their websites.

“The recent earthquake in Taiwan (and its related aftershock effects) has caused major outages of international connectivity due to multiple submarine cable failures in the affected areas. JARING international links are also affected since 3:46 am this morning (27 Dec 2006).” – JARING- Announcements

“We wish to inform our customers that the Internet service is currently experiencing a degradation in performance caused by several outages at some of the international links. This is attributed to the Richter 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck off the southern coast of Taiwan at 12.07 a.m. on 27th December 2006, which caused the APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network 2) submarine cable fault between Shantou, China and Tanshui, Taiwan and between Lantau, Hong Kong and Chongming, China.

This has caused outages at several TM Net international transit and peering links, mainly to the said countries. As a result, Internet users in Malaysia and other parts of Asia may be experiencing some delay when assessing content and websites hosted outside of Malaysia, especially in U.S., Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea and Europe. TM Net has taken immediate action to divert traffic through other back-up links to reduce the traffic congestion.” – TM Net – Newsroom

My personal experience

I was unable to access Internet in the morning (Dec 27). My mother’s phone call to my auntie in Taiwan also not reachable.

In the afternoon, I was able to surf local websites but international sites were mostly time out. Internet access was getting slightly better at the midnight/early morning (now). Still, my works are seriously interrupted. :(

How is your Internet connection? Please let me know that I am not alone. :P

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