Taiwan Quake Disrupts Philippine Internet

No wonder I couldn’t get any work done before lunch yesterday. Taiwan quake disrupts RP Internet, telephone connections By Erwin Oliva The Philippines’ links to the Internet were damaged following a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Taiwan early Wednesday. “These are major submarine cables linking the Philippines to the United States. We said earlier that it was only the [...]

Taiwan Quake Disrupts Philippine Internet

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12 Comments on “Taiwan Quake Disrupts Philippine Internet”
  1. jepoy says:

    i can’t open anything, emails, blogs, etc.. Your blog loaded after 10mins. Dammit. My neighb-whore’s bayantel dsl is already working fine. Damn crappy backup pipes of Destiny. Hmp!

  2. Mike Abundo says:

    Destiny’s junior managers are very nice folks who try to innovate despite executive inertia, but a visit to their office feels like time-traveling back to the ’80’s. Paper, paper, paper…

  3. jepoy says:

    lol. true. very very true. That’s why DOGZ died slowly. Lack of support. Buti nalang AMA grad head nila hehehe. :P

  4. Allan from England says:

    Having worked producing these submarine cables I dont think they broke they are made to be earthquake proof and indeed they are in fact they like us laying them in many earthquake areas as they help hold the ground together when there is a quake.
    So is this yet another PLDT lie may be they used more band width then they paid for over the holiday so got to cut us back.
    PLDT moto Profit not invest.

  5. estan says:

    well, earthquakes got too powerful that it really disrupted online activity.

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