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Icelandic service restored

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Thu Aug 29 02:24:27 2002

The CANTAT-3 trans-atlantic cable between the Iceland and Canada and
Europe was cut early this morning.  E-mail and telephone service was
restored around 3pm local time.  Iceland Telecom said phone and Internet
traffice was effectively cut off for about 9 hours while it re-routed the
affected communications via satellite.