SEA-ME-WE 4 outage: Internet service in India to hit

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SEA-ME-WE 4 outage: Internet service in India to hit

The South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) submarine communications cable system, which connects South East Asia and Europe, is reportedly cut in three places, off Palmero, Italy

Monday, April 26, 2010

BANGALORE, INDIA: Brace up for slow Internet connectivity, or at the worst a complete service break down, for the next couple of days.

The SEA-ME-WE 4 is an international sub-marine cable consortium of 16 companies including Airtel and Tata Communications.

The submarine cable system outage will result in service disruptions in its terminal stations, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France.

The cable repair ship has already been mobilized, however a full recovery will take atleast four-five days, tentatively untill April 30.

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karan said on 4/27/2010 4:18:01 PM:
I believe it connects Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4, But why the network between He.net and Airtel slowdown?

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=Comm33435 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>Punit Manik said on 4/27/2010 1:07:58 AM: </span><br/>Even when the repair work had not even started airtel reduced my night speed in the Turbo 1299 plan from 1Mbps to 512Kbps on 21st April 2010 and blamed it on undersea cable.

Airtel is always finding new ways to cheat there broadband subscribers. If the repair work goes on for the next 15 days who will compensate for that? will Airtel offer us a waiver in our bill for the loss of bandwidth?<div class='CommentLineContainer'><input type=button onClick='MoveComm(33435,ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_cphMainContentSection_cphMainContentSection_cphSection1ContentPart_ThreadedComments1_txtPid);' value='Reply'/> to Punit Manik </div>

Punit Manik said on 4/27/2010 1:07:58 AM:
Even when the repair work had not even started airtel reduced my night speed in the Turbo 1299 plan from 1Mbps to 512Kbps on 21st April 2010 and blamed it on undersea cable. Airtel is always finding new ways to cheat there broadband subscribers. If the repair work goes on for the next 15 days who will compensate for that? will Airtel offer us a waiver in our bill for the loss of bandwidth?

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=Comm33440 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>Raj said on 4/27/2010 10:07:01 AM: </span><br/>@Punit - If the cable is broken at 3 places, how do you expect that the internet internet connection would work fine until the repair begins?<div class='CommentLineContainer'><input type=button onClick='MoveComm(33440,ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_cphMainContentSection_cphMainContentSection_cphSection1ContentPart_ThreadedComments1_txtPid);' value='Reply'/> to Raj </div>

Raj said on 4/27/2010 10:07:01 AM:
@Punit - If the cable is broken at 3 places, how do you expect that the internet internet connection would work fine until the repair begins?

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Navaid Ehsan said on 4/27/2010 10:38:15 AM:
The same is the case in Pakistan, both of our countries have these corrupt Customer Services, making use of any opportunity to take out money from customers.

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=Comm33443 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>vijay said on 4/27/2010 12:07:46 PM: </span><br/>You wont get single rupee waiver for this issue,your paying money around 1000 Rs thats all...corporates are paying lacs together but they wont get any discount for this kind of issues.it is problem with International traffic not with national traffic.any how internet is working but only ur feeling slow browsing.so dont ever try to ask any discount for service provider,you guys dont how much they are putting effort to restore a connetion,we are just sitting here and asking connection ...its not small job as u thinking.
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vijay said on 4/27/2010 12:07:46 PM:
You wont get single rupee waiver for this issue,your paying money around 1000 Rs thats all...corporates are paying lacs together but they wont get any discount for this kind of issues.it is problem with International traffic not with national traffic.any how internet is working but only ur feeling slow browsing.so dont ever try to ask any discount for service provider,you guys dont how much they are putting effort to restore a connetion,we are just sitting here and asking connection ...its not small job as u thinking.

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shrikant said on 4/28/2010 12:24:02 PM:
Yes i agree with you vijay it is not a small job SEA ME-WE4 is international sub marine consortium of 16 comapny include Airtel and TATA so u may feel slow browsing speed coz every ISP is cut down their speed coz many big company will lose the business prodictivity this los may in lac and cr every buddy can use the internet think for every one

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K Rao said on 4/29/2010 3:17:21 PM:
The cables were broken due to natural causes which Airtel has no control over, and nor do you or any of us. Sure its an inconvenience, but stop whining! Do you ask for a lesser TV Cable bill because you couldnt watch it coz of all the power cuts? They're already rerouting traffic through other means more efficiently than you can imagine.

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