Explaning Internet BlackOut In MiddleEast and Asia
Feb 09, 2008 | Categorized Under: Web | | Comments
Internet blackout is now getting some explanation. If you don’t know what I am talking about, here is the story: severe Internet and phone service outages hit Egypt and India Wednesday after two submarine cable communication lines were severed. Many people thought it was sabotage. But it turns outs, a ship’s anchor was abandoned and it cut down one of the undersea Internet cables causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia.
The company who owned this Internet cables is FLAG Telecom. Their repair crew discovered the anchor near where the fiber-optic cable was severed Feb. 1 in the Persian Gulf, 35 miles north of Dubai, between the Emirates and Oman.
Before it was discovered, there speculations that the U.S. government was behind the cable cuts to create an information blackout for un announced reason. Others thought the Internet sabotage is from Islamic terrorists.