The New Nation - Internet Edition

Chittagong Correspondent

International and domestic tele-link and the cyber accessibility suffered a major setback yesterday when the nation's lone optical fiber cable came under axing near Basantpur, some 65 kilometers away from the port city.

The nine-hour tele-link disruption inflicted an estimated revenue loss of Taka more than a million.

All sorts of overseas tele-link went off for nearly nine hours until 8:30 in the morning from 11:00 p.m. yesterday. It also made cyber accessibility either down or difficult until restoration of the link at around 8:19 a.m.

Officials of Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) admitted the incident and claimed that the system had already been brought back to order after hectic efforts of the BTTB engineers.