Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week

Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 3, 2008 @05:36PM from the bad-week-to-be-a-backbone-cable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Another undersea cable was taken offline on Friday, this one connecting Qatar and UAE. 'The [outage] caused major problems for internet users in Qatar over the weekend, but Qtel's loss of capacity has been kept below 40% thanks to what the telecom said was a large number of alternative routes for transmission. It is not yet clear how badly telecom and internet services have been affected in the UAE.' In related news it's been confirmed that the two cables near Egypt were not cut by ship anchors." Update: 02/04 07:13 GMT by Z : A commenter notes that despite the language in the article indicated a break or malfunction, the cable wasn't cut. It was taken offline due to power issues.

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Re:The cable was not cut - Bad summary, bad! by SEWilco · 2008-02-03 17:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't interrupt us with facts!
Re:deliberate? still don't think so by Stealth+Potato · 2008-02-03 18:26 · Score: 5, Funny

...it's not the U.S. government behind it. It would more likely be some incompetent, rogue group that doesn't know what it's doing.
So, like the United States Government then? :-D
Re:Cue... by pipatron · 2008-02-03 21:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Their president is a belligerent idiot, [...] , and they continue to pursue nuclear weapons
Hm, remind me again, which country are you talking about here?

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