Ship Anchor Damages African Undersea Cables

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 27, 2012 @09:43AM from the have-you-tried-turning-it-off-and-then-on-again dept.

New submitter Bastian227 writes "A ship anchoring in a restricted area disrupted an East African high-speed Internet connection. The damaged fiber optic cable is one of three new undersea cables in the area off Kenyan coast. Repairs could take up to 14 days. 'The Teams cable had been rerouting data from three other cables severed 10 days ago in the Red Sea between Djibouti and the Middle East. Together, the four fiber-optic cables channel thousands of gigabytes of information per second and form the backbone of East Africa's telecom infrastructure. Telecom companies were reeling over the weekend as engineers attempted to reroute data south along the East African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope.'"

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yay by amoeba1911 · 2012-02-27 09:46 · Score: 5, Funny

no more Nigerian scams!
1. Re:yay by houstonbofh · 2012-02-27 09:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  But, backhoe operators around the world are sending sympathy cards to the captain.
Oh noez by fph+il+quozientatore · 2012-02-27 09:52 · Score: 4, Funny

So the internet is now leaking cats into the red sea?

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