People in Bangladesh are likely to experience slow internet in the next three to four days due to maintenance work on a primary submarine cable in the Bay of Bengal.

This might have a substantial adverse effect on e-commerce, especially the service-oriented industry, infotainment, and garment orders fully dependent on the internet, and on freelancers relying on outsourced work from overseas.

“Certainly this will create some challenges in our work, but right now we cannot guess how it will impact our business,” said Raihan Mahmood, a reputed freelancer who has been awarded by the government at Bangladesh ICT Expo on Friday.

He said their job nature necessitated uninterrupted internet and “even a few seconds' interruption could cause huge damage”. But slow internet is quite better than remaining completely without it, Mahmood added.internetwb.jpg