Damaged cable cuts Internet in Mideast
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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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One Wired News correspondent cuts his connection to the cable company and doesn't look back. Can the internet supply enough video programming to entertain a family of five? By Robert Lemos.
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A ship's anchor severed one undersea Internet cable damaged last week, it was revealed on Thursday amid ongoing outages in the Middle East and South Asia, but mystery shrouds what caused another four reported cuts.
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Intelsat cuts bandwidth over unpaid bill Zimbabwe's net infrastructure has all but ground to a halt after Intelsat cut the country's bandwidth over an unpaid $700,000 bill, Reuters reports.â¦
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India's lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country's bandwidth in half.
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Plans to send Internet broadband signals  down mains electricity cables rather than telephone lines could  hit the radio hams whose transmissions were so vital in the  aftermath of the Asian tsunami, New Scientist magazine reported  on Wednesday.
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A faulty cable triggered a major power outage Monday in Barcelona, snarling traffic, hobbling public transportation and knocking out electricity to homes and businesses in much of Spain's second-largest city.
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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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Flag Telecom's repair ship should reach and begin repairing the damaged undersea Internet cable on Tuesday.
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Repairs on two out of three broken  undersea cables providing data services to parts of the Middle  East and Asia should be completed by Sunday, while the third  should be fixed by Saturday, cable operators said.
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Cogent said fiber-optic cable near Cleveland was sawed and shot by gunfire, causing a major network outage.
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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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Disruption to internet services in south Asia and the Middle East  continues after undersea cable damage.
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Famous for their ability to make money, Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron have hit upon the Internet as a lifeline to cushion losses from conflict, competition and severe local recession.
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Internet traffic from India to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. has slowed down, as Internet service providers (ISPs) have started diverting traffic from Middle Eastern links to slower links through the Asia-Pacific region, according to the head of an ISP association in India.For reasons as yet unclear, two underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged&#160;Wednesday, including one from Flag Telecom, owned by India&#39;s Reliance Communications, and another from the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) consortium.&quot;These links carry most of India&#39;s premium traffic to the Atlantic region, resulting in a disruption of about 50 to 60 percent of the bandwidth from India on Wednesday when the cables were first damaged,&quot; said Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers&#39; Association of India (ISPAI), in an interview Thursday.Most of the traffic has now been routed through submarine cable links in the Asia-Pacific but traffic to the east coast of the U.S. and the U.K. will be slow, because of the longer latency involved by these diversions, Chharia said.Repairs to the Flag Telecom cable would take at least 10 to 15 days, which would mean that Indian companies, including outsourcing companies, will be affected for this period, Chharia said. A Reliance spokesman could not immediately provide an update on the status of the repairs, and other measures taken by Flag Telecom.India&#39;s second largest outsourcer, Infosys Technologies, said that its Internet service had not been affected by the outage in the Middle East. The company uses a lot of redundant links from a variety of service providers, a spokeswoman said Thursday.Another large Indian outsourcer, Satyam Computer Services, of Hyderabad, said that even as the links went down in the Middle East, the company automatically switched over voice and Internet traffic to networks from other service providers.A lot of Satyam&#39;s traffic that used to go through the Middle East links is now being routed through Singapore. &quot; We are seeing an increase in latency in MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) from 280 milliseconds to 310 milliseconds, and in Internet traffic from 300 to 350 milliseconds, which isn&#39;t a big problem,&quot; said Srinivasu C, head of network and systems at Satyam.The ISPAI recommends providing more backups on the Atlantic sector to ensure that the current problem does not get repeated in future, Chharia added.
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Several hundred Burtonsville homes and businesses lost Verizon phone and Internet service when a utility pole fire damaged a large cable early this morning, a company official said.
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A cable cut that occurred near Cleveland on Sunday night was caused by a saw and the replacement cable had been shot.