Online Report : Internet services across the country are disrupted as the supply of the country`s second submarine cable (SMW-5) has been stopped.

The authorities said the disruption was caused by the damaged submarine cable in Singapore. The outage began early Saturday.

Mirza Kamal Ahmed, managing director of the state-owned bandwidth provider Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC (BSCPLC), said, "Through SMW-5, we were providing 1,600gb per second of bandwidth to the country, which is now entirely down. We are trying to arrange alternatives using SMW-4 (the first submarine cable)."

"Due to a fibre cable issue in Singapore, similar situations have arisen in several other countries alongside Bangladesh," he added.

Mirza Kamal Ahmed also said it will take at least 2 to 3 days to resume the connection.