Internet Limping Back to Normalcy

Techtree News Staff, Feb 01, 2008 1916 hrs IST

However, bandwidth providers are now saying that they expect Internet services in the country to be back to about 80 percent of their usual speed by end of today.

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With Internet services in India and parts of West Asia disrupted following breakdown of two major undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea, Indian Internet service providers had earlier said full restoration of services would be possible only after ten to fifteen days.

However, bandwidth providers are now saying that they expect Internet services in the country to be back to about 80 percent of their usual speed by end of today.

Two cables that carry Internet traffic deep under the Mediterranean Sea snapped on Wednesday this week. Across the country, business and personal users complained that Internet services were dreadfully slow, and that they could not access any Web site. Some of the damage from this slowdown had a ripple effect on India's lucrative outsourcing industry as well.

But during the course of today, international bandwidth providers shifted their Internet traffic to cables under the Pacific Ocean. This was confirmed by Rajesh Chharia, president of the Indian Internet Service Providers Association.

With Internet services now limping back to normalcy across India, the situation in Egypt and some other parts of West Asia isn't that good.

The Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information, Tarek Kamil, was quoted as saying that in Egypt, Internet services would be up to about 80 percent of their usual capacity in the next 48 hours.

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USER COMMENTS

anyways what internet service do us underpriviledged indians get anyways,even if thAT damn thing is shut or not working its all the same thing, the world runs on downloaD SPEEDS OF 256kb/second(download speeds!!) and we dont even get bloddy 80kb and that too in the premium plan, to top it all we have a amazing 400mb /month download limit and other such exciting plans

by rahul, mumbai, on Feb 01, 2008 09:45 PM, Report abuse Reply

Thats what : IT Happens Only in INDIA.

by macy, Bangalore, on Feb 04, 2008 12:52 PM, Report abuse

People complaining here just read this you will come to know what India has in terms of connectivity and what limitations are also its ISP?s who are not giving enough connectivity to users and not India?s infrastructure. http : //economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Internet_/Hydra-headed_nature_helps_Net_rebound_after_cable_cut/articleshow/2753865.cms

by Ablenwill, Pune, on Feb 04, 2008 11:00 AM, Report abuse Reply

well tcchtree reader i am on airtel 384kbps plan ... when the internet cables were hit ....my download speeds were ..2 -3 kbps .. i could go to fileshring or any other sites .i am a heavy downloader .. i called up their customer care they told me that the slow speeds are due to the cable cut... and it will take 15days to totally restore them ... they also told me that i have been put on emergency servers ...now my speeds are normal...... i hope they will be like this ..well india and the middle east are not developed countries ..the whole region depends on two cables this is shocking

by mohammed younus, hyderabad, on Feb 02, 2008 12:43 PM, Report abuse Reply

Hey, i'm on MTNL 256kbps plan...and i got downloads at 512 kbps on this day!!Dunno how, dunno why...but 'twas sure fun!

by vrock, New Delhi, on Feb 03, 2008 09:35 AM, Report abuse

in 2006 also dere was a disturbence in the services bcoz of tiwan erthquake , now bcoz of possibly anchoring a ship in mediteriaan, now tomorrow agn some thng may happen, why there is no such back up for thngs ????? our business and many oder thngs haper a lot ..... we must think of back up plans for the future ,,,,

by Arpandeep Bhatt, Mumbai, on Feb 02, 2008 01:36 PM, Report abuse Reply