Slow internet? Undersea cable repair to be blamed
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 02:41 IST   |    38 Comments
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Slow internet? Undersea cable repair to be blamed
Bangalore: Are the failing web links, slow internet connection bothering you? Brace yourself for more in the coming three days. The outage is an impact of the failure of a vital undersea submarine cable system near Italy, as it has hit the broadband connections in India. The maintenance of the undersea cables will continue for another three days, which may cause more disruption in services. The South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) project links the two regions via the Indian sub-continent and the Middle East. The project is run by a consortium of 16 international telecom companies, including Indian majors Bharti Airtel and Tata Communications. This is not the first time India had to face slow internet speed due to disruption in a cable system. In Jan 2008, the country lost 50 to 60 percent of Internet bandwidth due to a breakdown in an international undersea cable network.

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