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Thursday, Jun 30, 2005
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Broadband Undersea telecom cable fault unlikely to impact India Our Bureau
New Delhi , June 29 THE damage in the undersea cable that has disrupted communication service in Pakistan is not likely to have an impact on India. All the Indian long distance carriers, including Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd, have switched the traffic, being carried on the damaged cable, to another cable system. "Unlike Pakistan, there are multiple cable systems that land in India. So there is a glut in international bandwidth and users have the option of routing traffic through either of these networks," said a VSNL source. A fault in an undersea cable that occurred late on Monday has crippled many of Pakistan's Internet and overseas mobile phone links. The fault has been traced to a point in the Arabian Sea, 35 km south of Karachi. According to agency reports, Pakistan officials said that the cut in cable could disrupt communication in other countries, including India, UAE, Djibouti and Oman, which are also connected by this cable network, managed by SingTel. Meanwhile, technicians from Dubai are on their way to make repairs, but it may take more than a week before the cable is restored. Indian officials, however, said that disruptions could occur for a few hours on Thursday morning when the cable may be shut off for repair work. But this is unlikely to have an impact on Indian users since the Internet traffic at that hour is minimal. Besides, most carriers have already made arrangements with alternate cable systems. India has a number of cable systems, including Network i2i, FLAG, Se-Me-We and SAFE. "So far there has been no report of any disruption from any of the ISPs and we don't expect the cut in cable to have any major impact on the Indian side," said Mr Amitabh Singhal, President, Internet Service Providers Association of India.
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