No Wonder The Internet was SOOO SLOW Yesterday...

from www.inq7.net:

Taiwan quake disrupts RP Internet,
telephone connections


By Erwin Oliva
06:45pm 12/27/2006


A "fiber break" in the major submarine cables
linking the Philippines to the international network
caused a nationwide disruption in Internet and telephone services,
local telecommunications company said Wednesday.

The Philippines’ links to the Internet
were damaged following a 7.1 magnitude earthquake
that struck Taiwan early Wednesday.

"These are major submarine cables linking
the Philippines to the United States.
We said earlier that it was only the Internet
but apparently it has affected international voice calls,"
John Rojo, head of corporate communications of Bayantel,
in a telephone interview.