Crews scramble to reconnect Asia to rest of world
USA TodayPosted: December 29th, 2006 by Thomas L. Knapp
“Asia began to recover Thursday from a cyber-tsunami that for nearly two days disrupted international phone service, cut Internet access, slowed e-mail traffic to a crawl and gave office workers enough downtime to contemplate the dark side of living in a wired world. ‘We depend on the Internet’ and international phone service, says Edmund Wong, 26, sales administrator for a Hong Kong property firm. ‘Without them, we can’t do anything.’ While phone service began to return to normal, a full recovery could take weeks, says Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA, a Beijing-based telecom consultancy.” (12/28/06)
