Costa Rica Cut Off From World For Two Hours
November 19th, 2009 | by admin |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.
