This is largely an issue that ISP (Internet Service Providers) and telecoms carriers need to deal with.

这是一个网络服务提供商（ISP）和电信运营商需要解决的问题。

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The flood damage knocked out websites and forced telecoms carriers to reroute international traffic.

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Federal regulators launched a new investigation into whether MCI avoided paying access fees to American local telecoms carriers a few weeks ago.

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The competitor they most fear is Cisco Systems, the company that dominates the corporate-data world, supplies more than 80% of the equipment that powers the Internet and is now increasingly selling equipment to telecoms carriers too.

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