Internet crashes in Pakistan
Tuesday, June 28, 2005; Posted: 11:53 a.m. EDT (15:53 GMT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) -- An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, telecommunications officials said.
The system crashed late on Monday and was still down on Tuesday evening. Many offices across the country ground to a halt as people realized it was not one of Pakistan's regular, but usually brief, technical hitches.
"It's a worst-case scenario. We are literally blank," said a senior foreign >>>continued
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/28/pakistan.internet.reut/index.html
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) -- An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, telecommunications officials said.
The system crashed late on Monday and was still down on Tuesday evening. Many offices across the country ground to a halt as people realized it was not one of Pakistan's regular, but usually brief, technical hitches.
"It's a worst-case scenario. We are literally blank," said a senior foreign >>>continued
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/28/pakistan.internet.reut/index.html
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