From AP via USA Today:
Internet services in China will not be back to normal until mid-January after being disrupted by a powerful earthquake off Taiwan, a news report Sunday quoted the country’s biggest telephone company as saying.
Internet and telephone services in China and many parts of Asia were cut by Tuesday’s quake, leaving telecommunications companies scrambling to repair damaged undersea cables and switch voice and data communications to satellites and undamaged cables.
The official Xinhua News Agency quoted an unidentified China Telecom Corp. official as saying Internet service would be back to normal on Jan. 15.[Full Text]
