Five (5)! undersea cables have been cut, affecting Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Iran, Egypt, and Dubai:
DUBAI — An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage, an expert said yesterday, quoting recent figures published by TeleGeography, an international research Web site.Who the hell is behind this? The Bush administration or Osama bin Laden? Hard to tell between the two terrorist organizations....
Internet data was majorly affected as it is the biggest capacity carried by the undersea cables.
However, all voice calls, corporate data and video traffic were also affected.
Two du experts yesterday briefed the media on the current methods being undertaken by the telecom provider to re-route the Internet traffic to provide normalcy to the users.
Quoting TeleGeography and describing the effect the cuts had on the Internet world, Mahesh Jaishanker, executive director, Business Development and Marketing, du, said, “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.”
A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.
7 comments:
Gee, nice little country you got here. Too bad it's so dependent on the Internet which is down.
Don't forget good old industrial espionage when the companies start showing up in the Gulf States and India telling people they really need another connection, like a cable that runs through Russia.
Possibly it's time to finance our new and wonderful communications satellite.
Never overlook greed as a motivator.
bush or osama...
only bush has the equipment and gall to do that ....
Greed or terrorism?
I keep on thinking of the destruction of the cliff Buddhas of Bamiyan and the assassination of Massoud in Afghanistan, the 'cleaning up' that occurred before 9/11, to prep the ground for war. (This article suggests that Pakistan was involved in 9/11 and that the Bush administration did not want Massoud in position of power after Afghanistan fell. They needed to put in Karzai...)
So. It comes down to greed as terrorism, which is what all this has been about from the beginning.
More is better.
Shit.
Actually, DC, Halliburton has more of the people and equipment for something like this than the US or any other government. Open ocean operations are a specialty of the oil exploration corporations.
Bush Cheney = Halliburton. I wonder when Cheney will take his old job back after his eight year stint as Destroyer of Worlds....
Curiouser and curiouser. Could it be that the warranty ran out? You know how things always break right after the warranty runs out.
Lol, SC! Your warranty runs out in 3... 2... *boink* ... Oh, I'm sorry. That will cost you 3 billion dollars to repair...
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