Asian Internet cannot

Newly discovered spoilers and bad weather will force Asian Internet troubleshooting to last until next month, telecom officials said.

According to Taiwanese telecommunications network spokesman Chunghwa Telecom, they discovered many new damage points on the cable axis leading to China and the remedial work may take another week.

" Due to the lack of direct transportation from Taiwan to the mainland, it will take 4-5 days to transport the necessary replacement cables to the vessel's technical ships, " said an official with anonymity to Chunghwa. reveal.

Source: AFP He predicts that the cables will be repaired by the end of January, but " nothing is certain because bad weather can slow down the troubleshooting process ."

Sharing this view, Hong Kong's telecoms officials say bad weather may force the technical fleet to delay repair time until February. " The weather is too unfavorable. At the preliminary repair stage only, the Internet will only be able to function normally at the end of the month . "

The magnitude 7.1 earthquake on December 26 has severely damaged at least eight axes of submarine cables connecting Asia and North America. As a result, the Internet and telecommunications services of the whole continent were immediately paralyzed, from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong to Japan, Singapre, and South Korea.

A total of 8 technical ships have been sent out to sea to overcome the problem. Although the transmission capacity of most countries has been recovered too, the Internet is still very slow. Accessing foreign sites is sometimes "extreme".

Trong Cam