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China Unicom, in a statement on its Weibo
microblogging account, said Internet access was disrupted from
1:25 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. local time.
The company attributed the outage to a glitch in a piece of
equipment in its backbone network - a critical, high-level layer
in a national Internet infrastructure.
Internet users later took to social media to complain about the
outage, with comments indicating those affected were in areas as
distant as Tianjin city in the north and Shanghai in the east,
as well as in inland regions.
In February, China Unicom said it had 69 million broadband
customers as well as 296 million people subscribed to its mobile
phone network.
The country's other major broadband provider, China Telecom Corp
Ltd, had 108 million broadband customers.
(Reporting by Gerry Shih; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
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