Three of the five undersea cables that were severely damaged and caused disruptions across the middle east will be repaired by Sunday, one of them being repaired by Saturday, according to authorities currently dealing with the matter. The broken cables caused disruptions to thousands of people across Asia, and cut Egypt's internet capacity in half. Much of the Internet traffic was rerouted within 24 hours, but definitely made things difficult.
Cable operators say that the repairs are well underway. It is still not known why or how the cables were damaged, however it is unlikely to be a coincidence: these undersea cables aren't broken all that often, and when five are broken within the span of one week, there's clearly something going on that we don't know about.
News source: Reuters
Cable operators say that the repairs are well underway. It is still not known why or how the cables were damaged, however it is unlikely to be a coincidence: these undersea cables aren't broken all that often, and when five are broken within the span of one week, there's clearly something going on that we don't know about.
News source: Reuters
Captain Nemo FTW.
just how exactly will they repair the cables if they don't know what's wrong??
The power failure was only for one of the cables I believe
Regardless, I don't get the big deal of screaming conspiracy in such a case... Really... 5 cables in a week? Major cables, and their initial explanations were incorrect.
lol, bullsh*t, the article states that underseas cables being disrupted is a rarity... bullsh*t. its far from it.
source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/w...ut-the-cab.html
source: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4244474&page=1
its time to take off your tinfoil hat and get back to reality...seriously...
Mmhmm.
Someone doesn't want the lines getting repaired and everyone keeps ignoring the fact this is hurting Iran the most. People keep also ignoring how nobody really wants to talk about it and when they have talked about it they have no clue what to say.
Some of you need to actually read the details before calling some of us conspiracy nuts. If you read more about it, there's a possiblity there's actually 9 lines that have been cut. Something's not right here. There have been no ships in the area that could have cut the lines by dragging an anchor. It's all been done under the water. There has been no plate shifting to cause the breaks either. Thsi has all been confirmed.
Someone wants Iran cut off and they want to keep them cut off.
@Aleck79
True, cable disruptions aren't rare. But when you have 5, with the possibility of 9, cables that are being cut all in the same area and hurting one country more than others, that's pretty rare.
Last edited by NightmarE D on 08 Feb 2008 - 08:55
3 cables 4, 5, 8, 9, whatever the number of cables, however many cuts, I hope someone makes an analysis of the damage, and reports the findings. The repairs are costing someone a lot of money!
Being that fibre cables have boosters every 30 Kms, I would have thought operators would know exactly where abouts the cables are damaged, within seconds. How difficult would it be to get a spotter plane out, so that the "vandal", ship, or drunken captain can be identified, and a claim made! This will happen in future, if not now.
I don't think this is accidental, neither do I think Bin-Laden is using anchors as a weapon of mass distraction!
After 5 damaged cables in less than a week, the mainstream press finally begins to realize that the damage done might NOT have come from natural causes. Incredible. I'm glad that we have such fast-thinking journalists.
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