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Costa Rica Cut Off From World For Two Hours
A break in the Arcos underwater cable left
most of Costa Rica without an internet
connection for almost two hours.
The cable connects the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) network
to the world by internet to Miami. The break
occurred at 10:20am by a ship in the
Caribbean about 2.5 kilometres from the
building that houses the Miami connection.
When such an accident occurrs, the system is
to automatically switch over to another
connection. But that didn't occur yesterday.
ICE officials say that service was restored
by noon when service was channeled manually
by way of Panama and Cartagena and then back
to Miami and that 60% of users in Costa Rica
were without service during the time.
Elberth Durán, spokesperson for ICE, said
that the cut in services in the afternoon
were not related to the Arcos break.
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