SEA-ME-WE 4, the country’s first submarine cable system, is located in Cox’s Bazar district, some 400 km southeast of capital Dhaka..reports Asian Lite News
Internet services across Bangladesh will be disrupted temporarily for three hours on the night of December 2 due to maintenance of the country’s first submarine cable.
SEA-ME-WE 4, the country’s first submarine cable system, is located in Cox’s Bazar district, some 400 km southeast of capital Dhaka, Xinhua news agency reported.
According to a recent statement by the Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC, from 3:00 a.m. local time to 5.59 a.m. on December 2, maintenance will be conducted near the Chennai Landing Station in India and the Tuas Landing Station in Singapore. During this time, Internet services will be temporarily disrupted.
Internet bandwidth in Bangladesh comes mainly through two submarine cables running through the deep sea. The first cable is installed at southeastern Cox’s Bazar while the second one is at Kuakata in Bangladesh’s Patuakhali district, some 204 km south of the capital Dhaka.
Germany’s support to Bangladesh
Bangladesh and Germany signed two financial and technical agreements on development cooperation worth more than 180 million euros ($190.8).
Md Shahriar Kader Siddiky, secretary of the Economic Relations Division at Bangladesh’s Ministry of Finance, and Achim Troster, German ambassador to Bangladesh, signed the agreements on behalf of their respective sides, Xinhua news agency reported quoting a press release.
Out of the total amount, 45.8 million euros will be used for technical cooperation and up to 135 million euros for financial cooperation.
Cooperation under the agreements will take place in the areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency, sustainable urban development, technical and vocational education and training, socially and environmentally sound supply chains, trade and infrastructure, protection of biodiversity and for a project on combating domestic violence against women and children. (1 euro equals $1.06)
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