Slow internet for four days

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Published : 16:48, May 20, 2018 | Updated : 16:51, May 20, 2018

Internet speed in Bangladesh will be slower than usual for four days due to repairs on the first submarine cable SEA-ME-WE-4Internet speed in Bangladesh will be slower than usual for four days due to repairs on the first submarine cable SEA-ME-WE-4.
Users in Bangladesh have been hit hard as the six international terrestrial cable connections are also down since Sunday afternoon.
The country is now connected through bandwidth from the second submarine cable, SEA-ME-WE-5.
“Repairs on the first submarine cable are expected to finish on May 23. Bangladesh will experience slow internet during these days. However, the situation will get better once bandwith from terrestrial links resume,” Emdadul Haque of the ISP Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) told Bangla Tribune.
He said a technical glitch at Benapole has snapped bandwidth supply the terrestrial connections.
“Broadband internet users are likely to face problems, but that will not be the case for mobile phone internet users,” said the ISPAB general secretary.
Bangladesh was connected to the SEA-ME-WE-4 in 2005, which provided 250 gigabits per second of bandwidth.
In 2017, the country started to get approximately 1,500 Gigabytes per second of speed after getting connected to SEA-ME-WE-5, the second submarine cable.

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