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Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Wed Jan 30 13:59:07 2008


If its not one cable, its another cable.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/30/asia.internet.outage

Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without internet access after a vital undersea cable was damaged.

A fault in the pipeline, which runs between Sicily and Egypt, has dramatically reduced access in countries including Saudi Arabia, Dubai and India, leaving millions of workers struggling to get online.