Telecommunications carrier Telstra told ZDNet Australia since the catastrophic events occured in the US the rate of Internet traffic on its network has doubled and telephone calls peaked at forty times the normal traffic early this morning.
A Telstra spokesperson said the network is operating normally, however, the telco is asking customers trying to reach the US to remain patient.
OzEmail spokesperson David Bathur said some customers would be experiencing slow browsing due to the increase in traffic.
-Our New York POP is out of service...users cannot dial into OzEmail from New York using global roaming," he said.
However, Bathur said OzEmail was confident it would withstand the barrage of traffic to its network, which was built -especially to encompass a very robust response".
"Increased traffic has had negligible affect on our network with Internet traffic delays more related to the server end," Bathur said, pointing out that users would be putting strain on particular destinations.
Dingo Blue representative Jackie Priestley said: -our users will be copping it like everyone else, especially when everyone's got CNN on their desktop".
Telephone lines are very congested going in and out of the States, she added
A spokesperson for the country's second largest carrier, Cable and Wireless Optus, said the company's international traffic levels this morning had risen to more than 70 percent higher than normal traffic levels.
CWO confirmed some calls made by its customers to the US were being affected by the surge in traffic.
CWO is asking all its customers to be patient, and to limit any calls made to the US to only those absolutely necessary.
A spokesperson for iPrimus agreed that traffic was running abnormally high. iPrimus had not yet quantified how much higher its international phone and Web traffic levels were this morning.
iPrimus so far believed all its Australian services - international and local - would operate as normal.
The iPrimus spokesperson said the company's US office had sent a memo to the Australian operation, advising that iPrimus networks in Washington and New York were experiencing problems related to traffic congestion.
