Sat, Dec 30, 2006 - Page 11 News List

Chunghwa Telecom seeks partners for satellite deal

ALTERNATIVE ROUTE Tuesday's earthquakes have prompted the nation's leading telco to look to the skies for ways of avoiding disruption in the event of disasters

By Lisa Wang  /  STAFF REPORTER , WITH AGENCIES

Indonesia's telecoms authority said it could take up to a month to restore Internet capacity, which had fallen to just 17 percent following Tuesday's quakes.

Analysts said it was too early to estimate the total financial losses caused by the week's Internet mayhem.

"They are the hardest hit, I would say," said Sachin Mittal at Singapore's DBS Vickers Securities.

"Probably all the [other] telcos will be less than Chunghwa," he said.

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