Ship seized for cutting Sri Lanka's internet link

Tue Aug 24 02:47:48 UTC 2004

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Aug 23, Colombo: The Internet connection to Sri Lanka crashed completely late Saturday night following major damage to the submarine cable that
connects the island to the global network, Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) said.

SLT said the damage was caused by a ship, and it may take more than 24
hours to repair the cable.

"We have lost connectivity to global Internet due to failure in the
international submarine cable system. All measures have been taken to
normalise this as early as possible," SLT said.

Sri Lanka Telecom's connectivity to the outside world is through the
Mount Lavinia landing point of the undersea SEA-ME-WE-III (SMW-III,
South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe) fibre optic cable link
managed by French and Singapore telecom."

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- ferg

-- Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

Sri Lanka's high court has ordered the seizure of an Indian cargo vessel
which allegedly cut a submarine cable connecting the island's
telecommunications subscribers with the rest of the world.

The court ordered that the vessel, State of Nagaland, be held at the
Colombo port where it berthed on Sunday after accidentally severing the
cable known as the SEA-ME-WE-III with its anchor.

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg at netzero.net or
 fergdawg at sbcglobal.net