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 [...]Taiwan Quake Disrupts Philippine Internet
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here’s from “middle earth” new zealand… ‘had attempted a zillionth time to contact Manila via
land and cell phones and e-mail since the 27th of dec. but was getting nowhere. so very much in holiday mode here in the
land down under that i didn’t realize an earthquake hit taiwan… anyhow, ‘hope the frodos from NZ would
soon have their fellowship of the rings with the pearl of the orient (kriiing…! kriiing…!)
It is estimated that over 1 million jobs in the Philippines will be lost because of this what is being done. why is the goverment involved why has a state of emergency not been called.
Allan: Because local politicians just don’t understand the economic significance of the Internet.
Although the internet is powerful, it is insignificant at the moment politicians weight things over. Unless it is not the case, all of them will blog at all cost, then we have our amazing virtual kingdoms, a very wide and big space when even divided by two it will still look like one. Anyways at the moment call centers are fine with the short disruption, call centers are very critical on internet. Life goes on, but as for my ethernet switch I don’t know if it is still okay.
Do we always have such disruptions when 7.1 hits us? Tsk.
earthquakes should be outlawed… hmp!