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Setback for Asia Internet Repairs

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Repairs to Asia'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.

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 Saturday, Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority said Sunday.

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.

posted by Fergie @ 12/31/2006 10:00:00 AM