For the last 4 days, customers including internet service providers of the country are getting slow internet. However, this problem is not being solved before the middle of next month.
Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh- ISPAB Secretary General Nazmul Karim Bhuiyan said that the delay is due to the fact that no ship of the consortium has been found yet. Once the ship is available, the work will begin. That means we’re going to be in big trouble. So, we expect uninterrupted bandwidth from the government.
According to sources, the country’s second submarine cable (SEA-ME-WE-5) has been out of service due to a fiber cable ‘break’ in Indonesian sea area. Saidur Rahman, General Manager (Operation and Maintenance) of Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC (BSCPLC) said on Tuesday, April 23, that the repair work of the cut submarine cable can be completed by the last week of May.
Saidur Rahman, general manager of BSCPLC, said that the SEA-ME-WE -5 cable was cut in the sea area of Indonesia last Friday midnight. They take little more time in administrative work there. All in all, they said, the work can be done by the third or fourth week of next month.
Saidur Rahman said that all options have not yet been fully implemented. The country’s first submarine cable SEA-ME-WE-4 is capable of carrying full bandwidth. For this, the concerned company will have to pay additional costs. But it has not yet been implemented. There are other options and are in progress.
It is known that 1600 Gbps bandwidth is provided in the country with SEA-ME-WE-5. The second submarine cable ‘broke’ at 12pm on Friday 440km west of Singapore and is now completely closed. Not only in our country but also in some other countries the same situation has arisen. Efforts are ongoing for an alternative system with SEA-ME-WE-4. Bangladesh’s first submarine cable SEA-ME-WE-4 landing station is located at Cox’s Bazar. And the second submarine only SEA-ME-WE-5 entered through Kuakata. A significant amount of bandwidth is being shifted to the SEA-ME-WE-4 cable from the decommissioned SEA-ME-WE-5.
