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Halted services for mobile data, roaming and disconnected cache servers are the two major factors hampering broadband internet connection according to Internet Service Provider Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB).
As the cache servers are not working now, almost the entire internet traffic is international bandwidth dependent, ISPAB authority said while explaining why internet speed is low.
Cache servers are maintained by internet service providers as they want to save international traffic which costs them much higher.
Google and Meta cache servers are the biggest here as most of the traffic is concentrated there. Who disconnected the cache servers was not clear, though.
However, current time across the country all connections are exhausted till the shutdown and unusual incident. Protesters set fire to the office of the Department of Disaster Management in the capital's Mohakhali and the blaze damaged the cables of some data centres housed in an adjacent building.
State Minister for Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak told journalists on 18 July morning that the government restricted mobile internet on the previous night to stop circulation of content full of provocative misinformation against the government and the state.
At least in 40 spots in the country internet cables were cut or set on fire by terrorists and engineering teams were working hard to restore them to resume broadband connections, the state minister added.
Local cache servers save international bandwidth by hosting information or content in servers within the country and its extent is large. Of the traffic Bangladeshi internet users were generating, more than 80% were being catered to by local cache servers.
Cable broadband sector consumes around 55% of the country's over 6,300 GBPS international bandwidth, while mobile operators consume the remaining 3,000 GBPS bandwidth.
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