Internet users in Bangladesh are confronting leading intrusion to their service after a submarine line was cut.
The collision affected the SEA-ME-WE 4 visual twine network that runs from France to Malaysia.
The collision occurred progressing this week about 60km (40 miles) from Singapore's coast.
India, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore moreover rest on the division of line entangled but have been able to highway traffic around other connections.
"Bangladesh does not have an substitute submarine line or any other connection," mentioned Monwar Hossain, handling executive of the Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company that operates the country's portion of the network.
He could not notify what had caused the damage.
The definite mentioned the easterly portion of the line was out of operation, forcing it to send all information by the outstanding west segment.
About 5% of Bangladesh's race of 165 million adults have access to broadband internet.
Local reports indicate that firms are experiencing really slow connectors causing problems for internet-based phone calls and email.
"Work at the mantle factories and outsourcing firms have moreover been disrupted due to the slow connection," mentioned Akhtaruzzaman Monju, boss of the Internet Service Providers' Association of Bangladesh.
Users have been told that it could take until next week to correct the connection.
Bangladesh aims to secure an substitute connection in 2014 around a new network declared SEA-ME-WE 5 that will use 100 Gbps (gigabit per second) technology - 10 times faster than the stream system.
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