Internet access in India improved Friday as international service providers shifted their Internet traffic to cables under the Pacific Ocean to bypass two undersea cables damaged earlier this week.
Repairs, however, will take longer.
The two cables deep under the Mediterranean Sea snapped on Wednesday, disrupting service since then across a swath of Asia and the Middle East.
India took one of the biggest hits, and the damage from its slowdowns and outages rippled to some U.S. and European companies that rely on its lucrative outsourcing industry to handle customer service calls and other operations.
Bandwidth providers in India said they were working to restore service to about 80 percent of its usual speed Friday.
