{"id":551195,"date":"2007-01-03T06:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T06:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551195-setback-for-asia-internet-repairs.html"},"modified":"2007-01-03T06:32:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T06:32:56","slug":"setback-for-asia-internet-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551195-setback-for-asia-internet-repairs.html","title":{"rendered":"Setback for Asia Internet repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">One of two repair ships that laid anchor in the Luzon Strait between Taiwan and the Philippines above the damaged lines experienced a major fault on Saturday, Hong Kong&#8217;s Office of the Telecommunications Authority said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The ship is now in Taiwan and will take about seven days to fix, the authority said in a statement, pushing back the estimate for initial repairs to one of the cable systems by a week. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;It is estimated that the first part of the repair of a submarine cable system would be completed around 16 January 2007,&quot; the statement said, revising the estimate from January 9. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;For the other damaged cables, survey and assessment are being arranged and repair of most of the cables is expected to be completed progressively by the end of January 2007.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The authority said on Saturday that three other ships were steaming to the location of the damaged cables. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It reported continued improvement in telephone services on Sunday but warned Web users to expect slower than normal surfing speeds. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telephone and Internet traffic in many parts of Asia was severely disrupted by the 7.1-magnitude quake off the coast of Taiwan, which killed two people on the island. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Millions were left pining for their e-mails and clutching unresponsive telephones, but moves to circumvent the damage by funnelling data through alternative routes have eased some of the communication woes. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repairs to Asia&#8217;s slow Internet, damaged by an earthquake that ripped through key undersea data cables, have been postponed because of a major fault on a ship sent to the fix the problem, officials said on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}