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Primitive though Morse may be, the world may want to keep it alive, if only as a backup when global communications networks crash-as they did spectacularly on Dec. 26 when an earthquake off Taiwan's coast damaged seven undersea fiber-optic cables that handle some 90% of phone calls...
But the Internet as it exists today is far from shockproof. It has been built by independent consortia of private telecom companies and investors, and network design has been driven by economics. Reliability is important, of course, but intercontinental cable systems can cost billions of dollars, so they tend to...
Southeast Asia is unusually vulnerable to such an outage because most of the region's data travels via a handful of major cables located in north Asia that link with the rest of the world. But not only Asia was affected. As traffic was re-routed, networks on other continents...
A spokesman for Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI says that some of the company's cables used for long-distance calls and corporate clients had been damaged; household and business telephone service was largely unaffected. "We have no idea when these lines will be repaired," the spokesperson says. While the Tokyo...
Paul Budde, a telecommunications analyst based in Australia, says that the indirect impact on Asia's economy of a hypothetical total outage could easily reach $1 billion a day. Restoring communications links will take time, Budde says, because specialized ships will be needed to hoist damaged cables from the sea...