Internet connections stopped in Nepal following a strong quake in Taiwan's southern coast Tuesday night.
However, two Internet service providers in the country could manage to prevent the interruption caused by the snapping of optic fiber links undersea near Taiwan.
The shake, that triggered a tsunami alert in Taiwan, damaged two of the seven undersea cables near Taiwan, used by many countries to route calls and Internet traffic. Besides Nepal, connections have also been affected to China, Japan, India and Southeast Asian countries.
Some Net service providers were doubly affected since they lease lines from Singapore's SingTel company, which itself has been affected by the Taiwan quake.
Though two Nepal companies that provide connections directly from the US were operating, the speed was sluggish and files took much longer to download.
Internet telephony and messaging services have also been affected.
Mercantile, one of Nepal's largest ISP providers said it had no idea when services would resume since the problem was in Taiwan.
People without internet services in China, India, Japan and Nepal have to wait and see how things move fast in Taiwan.
