India's Net Service About 80 Percent Restored
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A day after losing most of its internet service as part of a wider Mideast-Asia blackout, India expects to have most customers back online by sundown Friday.
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Carriers work to restore service and are providing free calls to people affected.
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The damage to the cables knocked out Internet access to much of Egypt, disrupted the worldâs back office in India and slowed down service for some Verizon customers.
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that is, in other countries such as China and India. According to an IDC study, China&#39;s IT growth is expected to be 15% annually and India&#39;s about 20%.
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Several companies ease burden of using Internet via cell phones.
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India decided to restore a train service to Pakistan two days after suspending it over security concerns in the wake of violence over Benazir Bhutto's killing, the railways ministry said.
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The Web site for the Bank of India is back up after a four-day outage because of hackers.
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The number of mobile phone subscribers in India last month swept past the country's fixed-line telephone base in a growth trajectory that is second only in speed and magnitude to that of neighbouring China.
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PUNE: Most of the 10,000 trucks parked across Pune came back to life on Saturday morning and returned to the roads. Understandably, Pune Inc heaved a collective sigh of relief as the nation-wide truckers strike
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NEW DELHI, Feb. 1 -- In the heart of an industrial zone and up an ordinary flight of stairs, young computer engineers buzzed with activity Friday in front of a huge screen tracking Internet connectivity in this country's booming service sector.
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The number of internet users in India who use their mobile phones to browse the web has more than doubled in the last year, Financial Express website reported on 6 June.
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PayPal on Thursday reported that it had restored its online payment services after facing intermittent outages for more than five days.
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The Internet is being put to novel use in Indiaâs southern state of Karnataka: as a shield to protect a bureaucrat against powerful and potentially dangerous enemies.
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The NYT has an optimistic overview on broadband over power lines, calling it "the ultimate plug and play." [Broadband Blog]
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Internet traffic from India to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. has slowed down, as Internet service providers (ISPs) have started diverting traffic from Middle Eastern links to slower links through the Asia-Pacific region, according to the head of an ISP association in India.For reasons as yet unclear, two underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged&#160;Wednesday, including one from Flag Telecom, owned by India&#39;s Reliance Communications, and another from the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) consortium.&quot;These links carry most of India&#39;s premium traffic to the Atlantic region, resulting in a disruption of about 50 to 60 percent of the bandwidth from India on Wednesday when the cables were first damaged,&quot; said Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers&#39; Association of India (ISPAI), in an interview Thursday.Most of the traffic has now been routed through submarine cable links in the Asia-Pacific but traffic to the east coast of the U.S. and the U.K. will be slow, because of the longer latency involved by these diversions, Chharia said.Repairs to the Flag Telecom cable would take at least 10 to 15 days, which would mean that Indian companies, including outsourcing companies, will be affected for this period, Chharia said. A Reliance spokesman could not immediately provide an update on the status of the repairs, and other measures taken by Flag Telecom.India&#39;s second largest outsourcer, Infosys Technologies, said that its Internet service had not been affected by the outage in the Middle East. The company uses a lot of redundant links from a variety of service providers, a spokeswoman said Thursday.Another large Indian outsourcer, Satyam Computer Services, of Hyderabad, said that even as the links went down in the Middle East, the company automatically switched over voice and Internet traffic to networks from other service providers.A lot of Satyam&#39;s traffic that used to go through the Middle East links is now being routed through Singapore. &quot; We are seeing an increase in latency in MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) from 280 milliseconds to 310 milliseconds, and in Internet traffic from 300 to 350 milliseconds, which isn&#39;t a big problem,&quot; said Srinivasu C, head of network and systems at Satyam.The ISPAI recommends providing more backups on the Atlantic sector to ensure that the current problem does not get repeated in future, Chharia added.
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A rule limiting the total amount of the market a CATV provider can address, was restored yesterday after having been ruled unviable by a federal court seven years ago. But since that time, the market has changed drastically.
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Home to some 1.5 billion people, South Asia is paying a high price to access the Internet as service providers have been slow to deliver cheaper broadband connections, analysts say.