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Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....

  • From: Carlos Friacas
  • Date: Tue Aug 24 09:00:01 2004 
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote:

>
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote:
>
> > Did they arrest the crew?  They have grounds on negligence
> > charges...
>
> The crew of the ship for having dropped anchor presumably in defiance of
> 'Undersea cable, Do not anchor here' signs, or the telco for having sited
> a critical communications cable near/beneath a busy port ?
>
> --==--
> Bruce.
>
> ( Of course, I don't know the specifics, but if you have a choice, running
>   your very-special undersea cable beneath a port would seem to be a bad
>   idea )
>

...an alternative ISP would have made big bucks during those blockout
days using some satellite gear, no? ;-)