Comments on: Quakes disrupt phone, Internet service in Asia

Casualties limited; undersea cables damaged, affecting capacity for international calling.

[Lee in San Diego]

I noticed

The phone lines were damaged. I was wondering why the spam
level dropped for a while. That sucks because I missed out on some
penny stock tips.

[guojc]

From Mainland China

The network situation still sucks. I have to use proxy for internet access. But I also notice that the spam level drop significantly. It seems that we do not have trade deficit on this field at least.

[satellite360]

Mainland China

Mainland China was massively affected by this. Internal comms were fine but access to International systems was out all day yesterday and looking patchy this morning. It would be interesting to know how far this problem is compounded by the China Firewall and the fact that traffic is so tightly controlled - i.e. apparently being routed primarily through the South China sea.