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Undersea cable cut to slow down internet for India, Pakistan, Egypt and other countries for upto 30 days

Under Sea Cable Route

Users in many countries are experiencing extremely slow internet connection since past few days, thanks to an major undersea sub-continental cable cut. The most affected countries include India, Pakistan and Egypt where internet connectivity to content hosted in Europe and US is almost unaccessible due to slow speeds.

Egyptian navy has arrested three divers sabotaging the SEA-ME-WE 4 undersea cable - one of the major data traffic route connecting Asia and Europe with 14 countries, running from France to Malaysia and linking Italy, north Africa, the middle east and the south Asia.

The damage to this major data pipe with reportedly two others have cause severe internet speed degradation for users in India, especially for customers of BSNL, MTNL, Bharti Airtel and Tata Communications and are supposed to be disrupted for the next 20-30 days.

Slow internet due to cable cut

While the extent of full damage and situation is still being assessed, Rajesh Chharia, president at Association of Internet Service Providers of India explained :

"Currently, internet and data usage are low because of the festive season. India will feel the impact from Monday when offices and businesses come back. Telcos have diverted all traffic from the Atlantic route to the Pacific, but our connectivity to the latter route is not sufficient to cater to all of India's traffic,"

Here are some updates from major Indian ISP's :

  • Bharti Airtel has said that the cable cuts had not impacted its voice traffic, and they are taking all necessary steps to ensure data services were available to their customers by routing traffic on alternative routes. I am personally using Airtel 3G in Rajasthan and it seems to be working fine at the moment, while BSNL EVDO and fixed-line broadband services are facing severe connectivity issues.
  • BSNL executives said the company is diverting its traffic on other cables linking India with Europe and the US, but speeds are still terribly slow.
  • Reliance Communications said its network is not impacted as its cable systems, including FEA, FALCON and HAWK, were not impacted.

Comments

Divers are from israel , thats what newspapers and media try to hide...

YES! it is true for bsnl is now dead slow not able to do streaming some times giving 6-5 kbps .... speeds India has been affected

Do you mean video streaming?, Youtube and Gmail are working fine for me on BSNL EVDO.

try facebook, wikipedia, torrent sites.. these sites r not working on bsnl evdo

YOU ARE RIGHT SOME SITES ARE NOT WORKING AND SPEED ARE VERY SLOW... GOD KNOWS WHEN WILL IT GET OK.

My BSNL EVDO data transfer is reduced to 50%.........from the last 4 days......

WiMAX is dead slow, and the customer service people don't know a shit about it.

NORTH REGION IN INDIA IS HIT WORST... BUT I BELIEVE AIRTEL AND OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS ARE NOT AFFECTED MUCH. I HAVE TO CHECK BSNL LANDLINE THE DSL SPEED 1 TO 2 DAYS BACK WAS GOOD BUT INCONSISTENT...

When were the cables cut

reliance services are the same , even if cable is cut or uncut , the leased line data services are always intermittent , no wonder nothing is affecting them :)

how make fcall for internet.

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