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Internet in China Disrupted for a Third Day After Earthquake Damaged Undersea Cables

Internet service in China was disrupted for a third day on Wednesday after an earthquake damaged undersea cables used by the country's telecommunications operators.

Access to Web sites based in the U.S. and some Asian countries stopped or slowed on Monday afternoon for many Chinese Internet users. The partial service outage affected China Unicom and China Telecom, the country's two major fixed-line operators.

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