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Cut Cable Causes Extensive Outage around Egypt
Over fifty percent of Internet service lost in the region
Businesses and individuals throughout India and much of the Middle East are facing a lack of Internet connection after an undersea cable was accidentally cut. The cable may have been severed by the anchor of a ship that was rerouted due to storms. The outage has caused over two thirds of Egypt’s Internet network and over half of the bandwidth in India to be lost. Partial service should be restored soon but full service could take up to two weeks to resume. It is unclear at this point how business and commerce will be affected as a result of the outage.
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GlenQuagmire
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D'oh!

D'oh!

pwned
@cox.net

pwned

Anon

Re: D'oh!

haha! serves them right for taking our tech support jobs away
LowRider
join:2006-06-23
Dallas, GA

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post poned

Guess this will post pone terrorist like the war on terror?
DMS1
join:2005-04-06
Plano, TX

DMS1

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Redundancy

Isn't redundancy so wonderful in the way it avoids total outages? Oh - wait a minute. They can't have had any. Let this be a lesson to network planners everywhere.

phattieg
join:2001-04-29
Winter Park, FL

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Wow...

Talk about unlucky circumstances. Imagine being the ship that caused it... Now thats a heavy anchor...
DMS1
join:2005-04-06
Plano, TX

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Re: Wow...

said by phattieg:

Now thats a heavy anchor...
Isn't that the whole idea? A floating anchor wouldn't really help.
Pictor Guy
join:2004-06-21
Sammamish, WA

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Re: Wow...

said by DMS1:

said by phattieg:

Now thats a heavy anchor...
Isn't that the whole idea? A floating anchor wouldn't really help.
Actually it would. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_anchor
lowpowers78
join:2008-01-26
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wooohooo tech support jobs back to usa

maybe this will bring those jobs back to America, but I doubt it

Jeebus Juice
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Tampa, FL

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Re: wooohooo tech support jobs back to usa

No it just means it will take twice as long for them to answer

fireflier
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Re: wooohooo tech support jobs back to usa

said by Jeebus Juice:

No it just means it will take twice as long for them to answer
And result in a temporary reduction in illegal VOIP-gatewayed telemarketing calls.

n1zuk
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Hello? Hello? How can I help you? Hello?...

I wonder how many call centers in India, fed with VOIP lines, are off-line this evening...

Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
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Cheyenne, WY

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Re: Hello? Hello? How can I help you? Hello?...

On the DrudgeReport it was reported 60% of India's network was down

doggoneit
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It's a huge problem

This is going to cause a lot of problems, it’s not just India but most of the traffic between Europe and the middle and far east. It’s going to cause big problems too for many American companies with operations in those countries, for example airlines, travel companies etc. Many people are going to have to work tonight.

N3OGH
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Re: It's a huge problem

No problem for me....

I'm still getting a non stop stream of News, Spam, and PRON PRON PRON!!!

But I digress..

Egypt. Nice cotton, nice cotton......

rlocone
Honor Our Heros, Our Armed Forces
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India IT capital of the World!

Well the IT capital of the world will have a hard time. Most of their phone systems are VOIP.
Pictor Guy
join:2004-06-21
Sammamish, WA

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Re: India IT capital of the World!

IT Capital of the World? You haven't been there have you? Sure there are lots of companies there but I wouldn't call it the IT capital by any stretch.
TheMG
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TheMG to rlocone

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to rlocone
I think "outsourcing capital of the world" would be a better descriptor.
the_dan
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wow

gotta suck to be the guy who rerouted that ship.

richdelb
Go Hawks Go
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richdelb

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Re: wow

The guy that rerouted that ship should be given a metal.

jerryjam
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jerryjam

Anon

QUICK call tech support

You might be able to understand them now!!!!!!
macaholic
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hmmm

they need to send Verizon techs who are former NYNEX employees over.

Estimated fix date would be about 2-3 years from now...

pokesph
It Is Almost Fast
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pokesph

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Outage around Egypt

Nothing to see here, move along.

Apophis
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Apophis

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bye bye tech support

Oh no, there goes dell tech support center....

N3OGH
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1 recommendation

N3OGH

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Re: bye bye tech support

said by Apophis:

Oh no, there goes dell tech support center....
You're kidding!!! Last time I called Dell tech support, the fellow on the other end ASSURED me his name was Greg.

I called another time, and spoke to a nice young lady. Her name was Marsha.

I asked her if I could talk to Cindy or Jan.

That was when Marsha told me it was all about MARSHA MARSHA MARSHA!

Then, 1974 rolled around. Cousin "the jinx" Oliver showed up, sliced a fiber optic cable and ruined the whole damn thing.

I knew that Tiki was TABOO!!!!

Cuchulainn
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Re: bye bye tech support

I always get "Ross", "Rachel" or "Phoebe." I ask for "Ugly Naked Guy" or failing that Roj, Dee, Rerun, Dwayne or Miz Thomas. One of them will have the answer.

Dell - "You're better off fixing it yourself, or buying from someone else who gives a rat's arse about their customers. 'Cause we just don't care."

Pashune
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Hm.

Didn't something similar to this happen already last year? I imagine it was to different countries in the middle east though...or perhaps I was wrong.

Either way I imagine there will be quite a few business troubles.

caffeinator
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the global effect

Doesn't seem to be effecting too much globally...but I'd hate to be there. BTW, Iran sure is out of it, huh?

Data is from The Internet Traffic Report - Asia
»www.internettrafficrepor ··· asia.htm

-CaFF