Sri Lanka&#39;s Internet down after damage to submarine cable
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Sri Lanka&#39;s main telecommunications provider says an Indian cargo ship snapped an undersea fiber optic cable that is a key Internet link between the tropical island and the rest of the world.
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Sri Lanka is being criticized for apparently ordering the nation's ISPs to block a Web site that supports the Tamil Tiger rebels, a militant group that supports secession of the north and east portion of the country into a separate state.
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A breakdown in an international undersea  cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt  on Wednesday.
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Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections
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Two of the four undersea cables that provide data to much of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia which were severed late last week are now undergoing repair.
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At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn't so worldwide. Two cables that carry Internet traffic deep under the Mediterranean Sea snapped, disrupting service Thursday across a swath of Asia and the Middle East.
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Last fall, the Blaster Internet worm slammed into Cable Bahamas like a digital hurricane, clogging Web connections for the tiny Internet service provider&#39;s 22,000 subscribers.
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Egypt had only about 40 percent of its  Internet capacity available on Thursday because of a disruption  to an undersea cable that has also affected the Gulf region and  south Asia.
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Traffic has returned to normal on undersea Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf that were cut last month, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, cable owner FLAG Telecom said Monday.
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Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East on Wednesday after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean was damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.
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India and countries across the Middle East experienced slow Internet connections and disruption to international calls to the United States and Europe yesterday after two submarine cable systems in the Mediterranean Sea were cut.
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PERALIYA, Sri Lanka  - In a small room up a   rickety staircase in a tsunami-damaged building on Sri Lanka's   south coast, Roshan Waduthantri sits glued to an earthquake   warning Web site and monitors cable TV channels.
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People call for help after tidal waves destroyed their homes and left them stranded in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004. Massive sea waves, apparently triggered by oceanic earthquakes, crashed into
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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has restored fully the internet services pertaining to its dial up internet, dedicated to internet, ADSL and e-mail services, a news release from Sri Lanka Telecom said.
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Internet traffic in Zimbabwe has come   close to a standstill after an international satellite firm   slashed its bandwidth because the cash-starved government   failed to pay the bill.
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Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without internet access after an undersea cable was damaged
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel talks with Geeta Pandey of the BBC about the devastation caused by the tsunami in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands.