The tele link between Chittagong and rest of the world remained snapped for nearly 11 hours following slash in the optical fibre in three places near Sitakunda since early yesterday.

The 11 hours isolation of the port city from rest of the world not only caused immense sufferings to overseas callers and the subscribers of the TeleTalk but also incurred the BTTB a huge revenue loss.

A band of thieves cut the fibre link in three places between Sitakunda and Bhatiari, some 39km off the port city while they were stealing underground electric cables at 2:10am, said a T&T official(carrier and wave).

T&T engineers patched up the damaged cables and restored the link at 1:15pm yesterday.

Though the T&T officials claimed that they have alternative system during the contingency, but subscribers of both nationwide, overseas and TeleTalk hardly get chance to establish tele link by the limited capacity.

The 256-km Dhaka-Chittagong optical fibre, installed at a cost of Tk 250 crore, is now almost in peril as irresponsible construction workers accompanied by thieves frequently severe the fibre.