Damaged undersea cables expected to be fixed by weekend
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Repairs to undersea cable connections that were cut off Egypt's northern coast last week, disrupting Internet access in the Gulf region and Southeast Asia, are expected to be completed this weekend.
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Construction began this week on the 4,500-kilometer East African Marine System (TEAMS) undersea fiber optic project that will link east Africa to the Middle East and the rest of the world, according to government officials.Alcatel-Lucent will construct the cable, which should be operational in next year&#39;s second quarter, for $82 million. The vendor won a tender for the project last year.The cable will provide affordable international broadband connectivity to several countries in east Africa, said Kenyan Minister of Information and Communication Samuel Paghisio. The cable, Paghisio said, will initially have a capacity of 40GB but will later be upgraded to 640GB.&quot;The cable will bring competition on the pricing of bandwidth, which means that the cost of communication in the region will come down,&quot; Paghisio said.The project is a joint venture between the Kenyan government and the United Arab Emirates government through Etisalat Telecommunication. The two governments own 20 percent shares each in the project. Eighty percent of project shares have been opened to the private sector.The cable will run from Mombasa in Kenya to a global network of fiber-optic cables at Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. The East African region includes Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia.Kenya is a member of the&#160;east African submarine cable system&#160;(EASSY), another submarine cable project that will run parallel to TEAMS project under the Indian Ocean from Durban, South Africa, to Port Sudan in Sudan and provide high speed Internet connectivity. The EASSY project will connect 21 countries in the eastern and southern Africa region to the rest of the world.
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Software giant plans to issues fixes next week for vulnerabilities in its Windows Mail, Internet Explorer and Windows XP.
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Flag Telecom says all three cables that were damaged in the Middle East last week will be fixed by Sunday.
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The third cable, known as the Falcon cable, comes after breaks in two cables off the Mediterranean Sea coast on Wednesday.
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Repair work has started on one of  three broken undersea cables providing data services to parts  of the Middle East and Asia, a cable operator said, and a  repair ship was expected to reach a second cable on Tuesday.
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Travellers are expected to brave road and rail delays and head for the coast this Bank Holiday weekend.
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A breakdown in an international undersea  cable network disrupted Internet links to Egypt, India and Gulf  Arab countries on Wednesday, and Egypt said it could take  several days for its services to return to normal.
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Divers are to examine the hull of a container ship which has been refloated nearly six months after its grounding off the Devon coast.
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Space shuttle astronauts will attempt  to repair Atlantis&#39; damaged heat shield during a spacewalk on  Friday, using staples to try to pin down a loose thermal  blanket, managers decided on Wednesday.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Three experts in high-voltage electrical cables have been asked to inspect the wiring on HMCS Chicoutimi and test several theories as to the cause of last month's deadly submarine fire, the military said Sunday.
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The U.S. Congress comes back to town   next week to sift through the pieces of the latest oil patch   disaster -- pipeline corrosion that threatened to shut down the   giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska.
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SAFETY tests are to be carried out on the Forth Road Bridge after broken wires and corrosion were found inside its main cables. The weaknesses were discovered during the first full-scale inspection of the 40-year-old bridgeâs two main cables.
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Most telecommunications specialists and cable operators say that sabotage seems unlikely, but no one knows specifically how the cables were damaged or if the incidents were related.
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Work is under way on the first undersea telecommunications cable linking the US with China.
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A stricken cargo ship off the Devon coast is at risk of sinking if weather deteriorates over the next few days.
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By C.R. Roberts, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Dec. 16--There's a tree on the roof of your garage. All that food in the freezer might have to be thrown out. Your phone and cable TV are still out. You might need to hire a contractor to repair storm damage.