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More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:52:27 GMT
Via: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_965656,00050002.htm Sri Lanka court holds back Indian ship, seeks $5mn in damages Press Trust of India Colombo, August 23 A Sri Lankan court ordered that an Indian ship, which allegedly damaged a submarine cable severing the island's main internet access with the rest of the world, be held at the port of Colombo till a case seeking five million US dollars in damages was settled. The Colombo district court ordered that the vessel, 'State of Nagaland' be held at the port where it is currently anchored until the case filed by Sri Lanka Telecom is heard on September 6. SLT, the island's main telecommunications provider said they want five million dollars in damages and that internet, international dialling and data services of 800,000 subscribers had been affected since yesterday. The ship is alleged to have dropped anchor and damaged the SEA-ME-WE III cable linking Sri Lanka to the internet backbone. Services will remain interrupted for at least another day or two until a repair ship carries out its work. 8<----------- snip ----------- - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
Current thread:
- More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... David Lesher (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... David Lesher (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Tony Li (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Bruce Campbell (Aug 24)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Carlos Friacas (Aug 24)
- RE: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Mark Borchers (Aug 24)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... David Lesher (Aug 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Michel Py (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Robert Bonomi (Aug 24)