SMH - December 28, 2006

Telecommunications across Asia were slowly being restored on Thursday after earthquakes off Taiwan damaged cables and knocked thousands offline, but access in parts of South Korea and Taiwan was still patchy.

Most of Asia’s telephone traffic was restored while internet access in many countries had also improved, a day after businesses and home users from Seoul to Sydney were hit by one of the most widespread tech disruptions in Asia.

South Korea’s top fixed-line and broadband operator KT Corp. said six submarine cables owned by a consortium of telecoms firms had been disconnected on Wednesday, knocking out thousands of telephone and broadband connections.

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