Internet service in the Middle East remains critically disrupted as the undersea fiber optic cables carrying Internet bandwidth got snapped. This is the fifth such incident in a week, but the cause of damage is still unknown.
Egyptian Officials have cleared that ships didn’t cause the breakage near the port of Alexandria. A review of the ship traffic reveals that no ships were operating around the area at the time of the breakage. Ships have been dispatched to fix the undersea cables, but bad weather is slowing down the repair process. Internet service is expected to return to normal in another ten days.
According to estimates from Mahesh Jaishanker, Business Development and Marketing for TeleGeography, “The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.”
This seems much more than a mere coincidence. I’m suspiciously wondering if this is some kind of sabotage. Let’s hope terrorism doesn’t come down to disrupt our commerce and communication.
[Via: DailyTech]
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