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Azerbaijanâ€™s Internet access slows down due to failure in Dagestan

11 September 2008 16:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ilhama Isabaleyva-APA-Economics. Due to failure in Russian Rustelecomâ€™s fiber-optic cable in Mahachgala (Dagestan), there was a slowdown in the Internet access in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijanâ€™s universal communications operator Delta Telecom said the failure occurred in transmission line at about 06.00 pm.
â€œThe failure will likely to be remedied by the end of the day,â€ said the company.
The failure didnâ€™t cause complete cut-off in the Internet connection but slowed down the access because of overloading.
Rustelecom owns and operates the countryâ€™s most extensive and technologically advanced nationwide fiber-optic backbone network (about 150,000 km in lengths), which enables to provide voice, data and IP services to business and residential customers across the entire Russian Federation and to domestic and international operators.
Rostelecom is the market leader in the international telecom segment, having established direct international connections with more than 150 operators in 70 countries, participating in 25 international cable systems and cooperating with approximately 600 fixed-line and mobile operators inside and outside of Russia.