Third Mediterranean undersea cable cut by ship anchors
- February 2nd, 2008
- 6 Comments
Seriously — three in a week? This sounds more like sabotage. Anyway, it seems another cable has been cut in off of Egypt, slowing down web traffic from Dubai to India. It should be repaired in two weeks. The worst part?
Internet cafes typically full of teenaged gamers are nearly empty with speeds still frustratingly slow.
“I felt like beating the … modem, throwing it away, because we compete on the Internet and it feels really bad,” said Aman Khurana, 13.
Luckily, the main stock exchanges don’t use the cables so there is little real financial effect. Plans are in place to add two more cables in the future, ensuring back-ups if the monster from Cloverfield takes a wrong turn at Key West and ends up near Sicily.
John Eddy (Who am I?)
8 months ago
“Seriously — three in a week? This sounds more like sabotage.”
My first thought was ‘How many times does it happen before you start to get suspicious?’
Manotick
8 months ago
Qatar announced today that another cable has been cut in the Persian Gulf. How many is that now? And is this all a coincidence?
http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidANA218034121543/SecIndustries/pagTelecoms%20&%20IT
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JP (Who am I?)
8 months ago
An IT firm that does business with my company is really hurting b/c of these cuts — they can’t get speedy access between their offices in Florida and India.
Anonymous
8 months ago
The location of the cut was under video surveillance the whole time and no ships passed the area. This was undoubtedly the work of a submarine.
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Rufus (Who am I?)
8 months ago
This was undoubtedly the work of the evil Aquaman. Word has it, he’s peeved with all those cables clogging his ocean and not one of them is providing him with Internet access! So much for you conspiracy douchebags. Truth hurts don’t it?
Tim
7 months ago
That Sucks
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