Dhaka, Bangladesh Global: Internet services across the country are disrupted as the supply of the country's second submarine cable (SMW-5) has been stopped.
The authorities said the disruption was caused by the damaged submarine cable in Singapore. The outage began early Saturday.
Mirza Kamal Ahmed, managing director of the state-owned bandwidth provider Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC (BSCPLC), said, "Through SMW-5, we were providing 1,600gb per second of bandwidth to the country, which is now entirely down. We are trying to arrange alternatives using SMW-4 (the first submarine cable)."
"Due to a fibre cable issue in Singapore, similar situations have arisen in several other countries alongside Bangladesh," he added.
Mirza Kamal Ahmed also said it will take at least 2 to 3 days to resume the connection.
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