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Most trouble with optical fiber: Bangladesh???

on October 5, 2007

Since Bangladesh was connected to the world through an undersea cable a year or so ago, it has had great difficulty keeping connected. The dry portion of the cable snapped twice in August 2007. Contrast this with Sri Lanka and Pakistan, which have had problems only once each in the past five years. Obviously redundancy is a key issue in Bangladesh.

:: bdnews24.com ::

The optical fibre link of the BTTB that connects the country with its online submarine cable system snapped at about 10pm Wednesday on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar highway, some 96km south of Chittagong.

The disruption has upset Bangladesh’s online and internet telephone links with the rest of the world.

Miscreants damaged the cable on a bridge, a BTTB official alleged.

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Tags: Bangladesh, Chittagong, Chittagong-Cox\'s Bazar highway, Cox, internet telephone links, online submarine cable system, optical fiber, optical fibre, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

Pradip Baijal: No lessons learnt from telecom

Sriganesh Lokanathan

on June 21, 2007

Despite the phenomenal growth of India’s mobile sector, broadband growth has severely lagged behind. Pradip Baijal, the former Chairman of TRAI comments on some of the reasons for this sluggish growth.

We always spoken about infrastructure sharing for last mile. The most important infrastructures that can be shared is backhaul infrastructure. BSNL and other operators should be encouraged by the government and the regulator to share the backhaul infrastructure like optical fibre cable, backhaul spectrum etc. Virtual Private Networks are a way of life for medium to large enterprises all over the world and should be propagated for use in villages. Of 6.5 lakh villages in India, the majority are in the interiors. These villages need connectivity for various institutions like primary schools, panchayats, primary health…

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Tags: backhaul infrastructure, Broadband, Business Standard, easier solution, India, optical fibre, Pradip Baijal, TRAI, Virtual Private Networks.

Vietnam’s submarine cable ‘lost’ and ‘found’

Abu Saeed Khan

on June 2, 2007

Dhaka, June 1 (bdnews24.com)—Maritime thieves have stolen at least 11-kilometres Vietnamese portion of Thailand bound SEA-ME-WE3 submarine cable and sold the 100 tons of illicit cargo as scrap, reported VietNamNet Bridge online newspaper Tuesday.

Such bizarre underwater international telecoms infrastructure robbery occurred on March 25 and since then Vietnam’s Internet users have been struggling with far slower speed.

The broken cable system, named TVH, was built in 1993-1995, connecting Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong with a capacity of 560 megabits per second.

The Vietnam Telecom International (VTI) got puzzled when the cable went down. It occurred soon after the Asia Pacific region recovered from prolonged bandwidth crisis as earthquake snapped bunch of submarine cables in the Taiwanese coast

VTI called a submarine cable fixing ship from Singapore. But its…

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Tags: Asia-Pacific, Ca Mau Sea, DHAKA, fibre optic, Hong Kong, Internet users, Kien Giang, LAN, Lan Quoc Cuong, Ministry of Public Security, Naval Command, online newspaper, optical fibre, Singapore, Soc Trang, South Vietnamese government, Taiwanese coast, Thailand, USD, Vietnam, Vietnam Telecom International, VietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam\'s Ministry of Defence, Vung Tau.

Unreliable connectivity

Rohan Samarajiva

on November 14, 2006

Why BPOs insist on route and supplier redundancy.

:: bdnews24.com ::

Dhaka, Nov 13 (bdnews24.com) – A suspected act of sabotage derailed telecommunications transmission optical fibre cable links between Dhaka and Chittagong Monday night.Submarine cable subscribers in Dhaka got disconnected at 7:30pm.

Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board rushed a maintenance team to the spot on the outskirts of Comilla town but failed to put the connection back on.

A senior official told bdnews24.com that the BTTB suspected the cable cut was an “act of sabotage”.

”There is no maintenance work of the Roads and Highways Division in the area which is generally the primary cause of such cable cuts,” he said in support of his argument.

”We cannot repair the cable in the night as we don’t have enough workers.”

BTTB has…

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Tags: Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board, BTTB, Chittagong, Comilla, DHAKA, optical fibre, Roads and Highways Division, telecommunications transmission optical fibre cable lin.

Sri Lanka Telecom links up with India’s BSNL

Ayesha Zainudeen

on September 29, 2006

From Lanka Business Online

Streaming Fast
28 September 2006 19:00:19
Sri Lanka Telecom links up with India’s BSNL to offer wider choice

September 28 2006 (LBO) – India’s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Thursday officially kicked off a 1.8 billion rupee undersea cable unit with Sri Lanka Telecom, which will bring down call rates between South Asian countries.
The optical fibre cable, which run between Mt Lavinia (Sri Lanka) and Tuticorin in India, will enable SLT customers to enjoy high speed broadband services such as audio and video streaming.

Read full article on LBO

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Tags: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Broadband, India, Mt Lavinia, optical fibre, rupee, speed broadband services, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Telecom.

More on the Bangladesh undersea cable

Rohan Samarajiva

on May 23, 2006

The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 704
Submarine Cable:
BTTB given unlawful control over network
Other ISPs will be discriminated against
Abu Saeed Khan

The government violated the law by allowing the state-run telecoms monopoly to own and operate the country’s only submarine cable network. Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) built the SEA-ME-WE4 submarine cable and its associated infrastructure from the earnings of its other telecoms ventures and the law explicitly prohibits such practices of subsidisation.

Subsection C of Section 49 of the telecoms law says, “If an operator provides more than one service, but there exists competition in the market in providing one of such services and no competition in case of another service provided by him, then subsidy from the earnings of the service which is…

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Tags: Bangladesh, Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board, Chittagong, Cox, data connectivity services, fixed telephony, Internet Service Providers, Internet services, optical fibre, Saeed Khan, state-owned Internet service, submarine cable network, telecoms law, Web Edition Vol..

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