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Undersea cables strike a blow for Telstra users By Rachel Lebihan, 0 September 21, 2001 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Undersea-cables-strike-a-blow-for-Telstra-users/0,130061791,120260611,00.htm
Access to international Web sites has been impacted by two underseas cable cuts, suspected to have been caused by a ship's anchor. The damage affected the China-US and SEAMEWE3 cables about 30km off the coast of Shantou on the Chinese mainland, Telstra's Martin Ratia told ZDNet Australia. "We don't know the extent of the damage so we really can't talk about the extent of the impact," Ratia said. -Hopefully it won't be more than a bit of congestion or small delays caused by congestion." -It's a suspected ship dragging it's anchor, but that's not confirmed," he added. Ratia said voice traffic has been restored and Internet traffic to the US was being restored by Southern Cross Cable. The SEAMEWE3 cable was being brought back into action by SingTel in China, Ratia said.
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