BEIJING—Asia's major telecom operators scrambled on Monday to eliminate the impact on their operations from damage to several submarine cables following the massive earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan last Friday.
Many telecom operators were reporting some disruptions in Internet access on Monday, though the partial restoration of service was accomplished by rerouting traffic over undamaged cables and via satellites.
Most international Internet data and voice phone calls are transmitted as pulses of light via the hundreds of undersea fiber optic cables that crisscross the globe. The cables, which can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, are typically owned by
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