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)

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Manage Alerts | What Is This? 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.

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

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.

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[cdb]

1. Test run?

Terrorists will be bringing the other internets down. Gotta fight terra.

[Maple]

2. That's interesting

What's about to happen in Pakistan?

[Big Kahuna]

5. My thoughts exactly.

[flannelmouth]

3. Well, Just call support!

Ya well, never mind

[SquireJons]

6. Hello, New Deli? n/t

[ender]

4. hopefully no one was injured in this terrible crash....

[nine30]

7. Oh oh.. Bin Laden will be off line for some time !

[customerserviceguy]

8. Maybe

this is to force him to make a cell phone call to his operatives. It would be much easier to intercept and trace.

[Javaman]

9. Internet(s)?

Nice to know our "allie" is on top of the tech curve.