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It is exactly 24 hours after the earthquake in Taiwan. The earthquake caused 6 major fiber cable between China and U.S., between Korea and Hong Kong, and between Hong Kong and Shanghai were broken.
This is according to local news:
20:25 China-U.S. Cable broke
20:25 Asia-Europe #3 Cable broke
00:06 Asia-Pacific #2 S7 broke
02:00 Asia-Pacfic $2 S3 broke
20:43 Flag from Korea to Hong Kong broke
04:56 Flag from Hongkong to Shanghai broke
home.wangjianshuo.com (very slow. It takes 5 minutes to open this editing page).
Gmail.com - very very slow, and almost not accessible
MSN Messenger - completely unable to logon
Skype - it still works
All other sites in US, very slow.
In China, the Internet experienced 24 hours without connection to U.S.
Local v.s. International Sites
In the morning, friends started to spread out QQ numbers, and I know many people have to turn on QQ or register QQ.
Gmail is not working, and hotmail.com is not accessible. To send a file to my friends who uses @163.com email address, I registered a new @163.com email address to ensure delivery.
eBay.com.cn is not accessible for many hours, and I don't know how many users switch to Taobao.
This time, not 1 cable was cut off - it was 6 cables that was cut off. It is said it takes at least one month to recover. It takes only 21 days to form a habit. To get used to a new site takes much less time. This must be a huge opportunity for local web sites.
Posted by Jian Shuo Wang at December 27, 2006 8:33 PM
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I assume there is also some problems getting through to Chinese telephone numbers from outside of China. At least I am having problems while trying to call mobile number and landline number from Europe.
Posted by: Miikka (external link) on December 27, 2006 9:52 PMWhen tried to access SINA from US, the front page is open faily fast, however get to click any link on the front page took long time to open.
Posted by: BLUEKITECN on December 28, 2006 1:11 AMMSN can logon this morning, but just several minitues later, it was not accessible in WUHAN.This caused many problems for me to contact my client and my party fellows. Wish those cable problems could recover asap.
Another things I'm intrested is whether this damage will be a huge opportunity for WUHAN's cable manufactories.