Chinese Internet remained lethargic until the end of January

It is not until the end of January that the technical fleets can fully restore Internet services in China. The reason is because the damage level of undersea cable "is serious" than originally estimated, Xinhua said.

The technical ships were sent to the waters off Taiwan, where the December 26 earthquake caused severe damage and fractured at least 8 underground cable axes, met with numerous difficulties due to the big waves and bad weather. .

Source: AFP China Telecom's network officials added another reason for the slowdown of the incident: It is due to the dense density and excessive overlap of telecom cables. through the sea in the area.

Besides, the process of fixing errors is very complicated: technical fleets have to pull heavy cables from the bottom of the sea to re-weld broken sections.

As predicted by China Telecom, the earliest, its cable lines cannot be completely repaired before January 20.

The 7.1-magnitude earthquake in late December has paralyzed the Internet and telecommunications throughout Asia for several weeks. Even Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Taiwan, which have very good communication service infrastructure are also badly affected.

Although most Internet services in China have claimed to have been restored a few days after the earthquake, in fact, the speed of surfing the Web is still "much more" than before. Many websites in the US are still inaccessible.

Trong Cam