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Sat 2 Feb, 2008 06:50 pm
if you have expeienced poor service communicating with the middle-east and asia , a cut undersea cable is the likely culprit .
Quote:New cable cut compounds net woes
A submarine cable in the Middle East has been snapped, adding to global net problems caused by breaks in two lines under the Mediterranean on Wednesday.
The Falcon cable, owned by a firm which operates another damaged cable, led to a "critical" telecom breakdown, according to one local official.
The cause of the latest break has not been confirmed but a repair ship has been deployed, said owner Flag Telecom.
The earlier break disrupted service in Egypt, the Middle East and India.
"The situation is critical for us in terms of congestion," Omar Sultan, chief executive of Dubai's ISP DU, told The Associated Press, following the most recent break.
Wednesday's incident caused disruption to 70% of the nationwide internet network in Egypt on Wednesday, while India suffered up to 60% disruption.
Flag Telecom said a repair ship was expected to arrive at the site of the first break - 8.3km from Alexandria in Egypt - on 5 February, with repair work expected to take a week.
A repair ship deployed to the second break - 56km from Dubai - was expected to arrive at the site in the "next few days", the firm said.
in full :
SERVICE INTERRUPTION
I'm surprised it took this long for it to happen.
I was wondering why I couldn't get
www.girlsgonewildwithcamels.com to come up.....
It is a big news and Wikipedia has a created page on this Title :
2008 Submarine Cable Disruption
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption
Check it.
thanks , suman halder !
interesting to see it in WIKI - must have been a major event .
WELCOME TO a2k !
hbg
When I first heard about this "accident"??? it was NOT mentioned on any TV news in my neck of the woods. I had accidentally found out about it via browsing a www news page.
In my opinion it was very big news, affecting not thousands of people but probably millions world wide, so I wondered why on earth wasn't it mentioned on the TV news? That alone made me suspect "conspiracy theories".
A few days after I had seen this information on the Internet, I went back to check it out again, thinking I might have been dreaming or something, and it was gone. To find it I had to Google the query. I think anything going wrong with the Internet qualifies for TV news coverage, but it never seems to happen. I wonder why?
Vonda1941 wrote:I think anything going wrong with the Internet qualifies for TV news coverage, but it never seems to happen. I wonder why?
What a boring channel that would be. There are thousands of things that go "wrong" with the Internet every single day. You want your daily news to be filled with stories about this crap?
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