Special correspondent:

Internet users are likely to face reduced speed for the next five days as a fibre optic cable that connects Bangladesh's international internet gateway operators with Singapore will go through emergency maintenance, said industry operators.

"There is an upcoming emergency I2I circuit maintenance to be held from 12.30 am on October 26 to 12.30 am on October 31," said OptiMax Communication Ltd, an internet service provider and international internet gateway (IIG) company, in an email.

"During the maintenance period, most of the SMW-4 circuits will be down and users might face high latency, intermittent packet-loss, and jitter in multiple destinations," it said.

Md Emdadul Hoque, secretary-general of the Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB), told that "Because of the maintenance, there will be some interruption and high latency. But the internet will be there."