Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week

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:Dear Overzealous Mod

[coolGuyZak]

This is the way it has to be on a technical discussion board. If somebody is talking bullshit it will be quickly found as this board is filled with technical experts.

In an age of SEO, domain squatters, and conspiracy kooks it can be difficult to construct a search that successfully separates the wheat from the chaff. Luckily, the architects of the Internet provided us with hyperlinks capable of pointing directly to the source. This has the added bonus of leading the technically competent to analyze the article behind the link--increasing the fact finding and chaff filtering capability of the community as a whole.

Or, to make a long story short, stuff it.