Internet Fiber Cuts Isolate Millions in Middle East and Southeast Asia
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Asian countries are reeling from cuts in underwater internet fiber optic cables that have left millions in the e-dark. While the internet feels crucial, one internet analyst says such outages are the cost of cheap internet access fees.
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Home to some 1.5 billion people, South Asia is paying a high price to access the Internet as service providers have been slow to deliver cheaper broadband connections, analysts say.
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Four breaks in undersea internet cables have some speculating that terrorists or the U.S. military are to blame. But telecom experts say the pattern is at most a bit suspicious, and probably just business as usual at the bottom of the ocean floor.
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By Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, Jordan  Mar. 4--Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, has expanded its presence in the GCC with the launch of its direct operations in Qatar, it was announced today.
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Web slowdown hits India, Pakistan too A submarine cable in the Mediterranean was cut earlier today, resulting in a dramatic slowdown in internet access for people in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and much of the Middle East.â¦
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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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Four projects are in the works to lay fiber-optic cables beneath the Indian Ocean off the coast of eastern Africa. The countries involved are:
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That's some contention ratio Over 200 million people worldwide use DSL technology to access the internet, according to figures released yesterday at Broadband World Forum Asia in Beijing.â¦
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Damage to undersea Internet cables hit business across the Middle East and South Asia on Thursday, including the vital call centre industry, prompting calls for people to limit their surfing.
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Network carriers say U.S. users from companies and the government are experiencing Internet delays when connecting to India and the Mideast because of the re-routing of traffic across the Pacific Ocean after underwater cables were cut in the Mediterrranean.
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By Jason Gerald John  KUALA LUMPUR: Local Internet traffic is being routed to Singapore or even the United States, causing Malaysia to lose in terms of foreign exchange. "We have to put a stop to this.
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But UK still in the dark There are now over one million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband connections in Europe, according to an Informa report.â¦
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Internet decisions aren't always made at Internet speeds.
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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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Plans to lay an undersea fiber-optic cable off eastern Africa could be the beginning of the end of crackling long-distance calls, slow dial-up Internet connections and universities without e-mail.
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A new 500-million-dollar fiber optic cable between China and the United States will be vital in helping to meet booming Internet traffic between the two nations, state press has reported.
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PC World editors from around the globe report on how people in their countries connect to the Internet.