Cable damage in Mediterranean disrupts Internet in Mideast
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Two underwater cables damaged in the Mediterranean led to Internet disruptions across much of the Middle East, and officials said repairs could take days.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., May 31  /PRNewswire/ -- Sending vacation photos over a dial-up Internet connection can seem to take longer than the vacation itself.
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By Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, Jordan  Feb. 26--Bayt.com, the Middle East's number one job site, has said that the internet is growing in profile as an important medium for recruiters and jobseekers in the Arab world.
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Internet service in Egypt should be  restored to normal by Monday after repairs to undersea cables  are completed, an official at Egypt's state-controlled telecoms  firm said on Friday.
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By Jon Van  Those amusing YouTube video clips that Internet users send to friends gooble up large chunks of bandwidth and may cause the net to crash, some elements of the telecom industry warn.
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An Associated Press reporter ran a test of two computers connected to the Internet with Comcast cable modems in Philadelphia and San Francisco, in order to see if reports of the cable provider blocking file sharing programs were true.
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On Wednesday, Internet traffic to Middle Eastern countries through two international data pipelines was greatly reduced or totally severed, as a result of breaks in undersea cables.
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Multiple fiber cuts to undersea cables show the fragility of the Internet at its choke points.
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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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A third submarine internet cable is severed in the Middle East, compounding global net problems.
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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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Thousands of Guyanese were without Internet service for most of Thursday because the Americas II submarine fiber-optic cable broke in French Guiana, authorities said.
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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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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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After Internet disruptions and slowdowns engulfed a large swath of the Middle East and India, a new, more resilient cable is being laid in the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and France, a spokesman for the cable-owner FLAG Telecom said Wednesday.
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Text of report by Indian newspaper The Telegraph on 5 March  [Unattributed report: "Militant Axe on 'Obscene' Channels"]  Srinagar, March 4 - Cable operators in the Valley have switched off some entertainment channels after militant groups Al Madina and Al Badr issued a diktat.
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(InfoWorld) - Guns, saws, and some very dim-witted thieves were all apparently involved in a network blackout that affected Internet users, primarily in the northeastern United States, earlier this week. Cogent Communications said Thursday that a cable cut that occurred near Cleveland on Sunday night was caused by a saw, not by gunshot as first thought, but technicians struggling to replace the cut cable used a replacement cable that had been shot. Cogent was one of several operators affected through Monday evening when two-thirds of a mileÂ of cable was cut between Cleveland and the tiny town of Montville, Ohio. With more than 32,500 miles of fiber, Cogent is one of the largest network operators in the United States. Crews rushed in to fix the problem only to discover that their replacement cable had been damaged by gunshots. "The original cable was not shot, it was the replacement cable," Cogent said Thursday. "The original cable was cut with a saw of some sort. Police are speculating that the thieves thought the cable was made of copper." Copper prices have spiked in recent years, spurred in part by increased demand from China, and theft of all kinds of copper, including wires, has become common. Unfortunately for the Cleveland thieves, fiber-optic cable is made of glass fibers, not metal. Cogent did not name the service provider whose lines had been cut, but a source familiar with the situation said the lines are owned by Level 3 Communications. Level 3 did not return calls seeking comment. TeliaSonera lost the northern leg of its U.S. network to the cut, the company said. Grant Gross in Washington contributed to this story.