Communications recover slowly after earthquake
(Xinhua)Updated: 2006-12-31 08:58
Zeng Jianqiu, professor with the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said telecom enterprises should establish emergency response projects to reduce users' losses to a minimum.
At an on-line survey conducted by Sina.com, 90 percent of the respondents admitted their lives or work have been affected by inaccessibility to the Internet and more than 50 percent said they or their companies had incurred losses.
The government and telecom operators should issue detailed information about the causes, recovery process and alternative solutions as soon as possible to prevent chaos, said the expert.
Zeng emphasized telecom operators should increase investment in technology research and development of undersea cable maintenance and repair.
The emergency impelled enterprises to search for balance between effective back-up and cost control.
A quake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale off the southern tip of Taiwan damaged all nine fiber-optic cables that cross the ocean floor south of Taiwan, affecting telecommunication traffic between the mainland and Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United States, Southeast Asia and Europe.
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