Internet crashes in Pakistan

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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 banker who declined to be identified.

An official at the Karachi stock exchange said Pakistan's main bourse was

unaffected as it had its own internal trading system.

Officials at Pakistan Telecommunication Ltd, which operates

the link, said the fault was in an undersea cable and had been caused by a

power supply problem.

Fixing it would entail an interruption for other countries

using the link, including India, Dubai and Oman, one company official said.

" To reconfigure the power supply system and set the

fault right there needs to be an interruption of up to two hours, " said

PTCL official Mashkoor Hussain.

But the impact on neighboring countries would be limited and

the repairs would begin at 4 a.m. on Wednesday (2300 GMT on Tuesday) to minimize any disruption, he

said.

" They have more than one cable. Their systems will

continue working. "

Telecommunications officials in those countries had been

consulted and had given the go-ahead for the repairs, he said. " Hopefully

it will be repaired by tomorrow morning. "

Airlines and credit card companies were among the businesses

hit by the crash.

" It's a total disaster, " said Nasir Ali, commercial director of

the private Air Blue airline. " We have a Web-based booking system which

has totally collapsed. "

PTCL provided satellite back-up for the link, which meant

some people were able to get access to a very slow Internet connection, Hussain

said, but users complained it was too slow to be of any use.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/28/pakistan.internet.reut/index.html

 

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