Internet Connection Cut Between Europe, Asia And Africa

The Guardian:

Millions of internet and telephone users across the Middle East and south Asia are struggling to get connections after damage to undersea cables linking Europe, Africa and Asia took down a major route for internet traffic.

Read the whole story: The Guardian

Comments

[wadenelson1]

Is Huffpo so pro-I&rael that any comments regarding that nation state get "c"ensored?

My comment, apparently "c"ensored, is that if I$rael was going to attack Iran in a "Christmas Surprise" the first thing they'd do would be to cut communication lines to that part of the world.

[DrVeruju]

Arpranet was supposed to be so robust. I guess all the redundancy has been taken out of the equation.

[Phideaux]

Ah ha! That answers why the Spam has fallen off..... not for long I'm sure.

[Haditup2here]

That's funny . . . . I have just gotten a break all of a sudden too -- especially about the need to cash money.

[BigHeadTodd]

Arrrrrgh. Probably them scurvy-dog PIRATES!

[backroads]

Bet ATT is to blame for the outage.

[Moon]

This was no accident. Smells like someone is running damage control. I wonder what effect this is having on there markets. They were headed downward last time I checked.

[Velocitor]

Item 3 in my post below should read:
3) 3) Internet 2 will be profit-structured to charge you by the amount of bandwidth you consume....

[horsey]

so how do we fight it...

[Velocitor]

The story may be true, but the coverage is part of the insideous hype to discredit the internet as "outdated" and "over capacity". Google, NewsCorp, and a few others would like to replace our internet with "internet 2", which is really a giant intra-net of wealthy corporate sponsors. Features of Internet 2 that they'd rather not admit to:
1) You will have to *apply* to Internet 2 administrators to put a page up- if your content doesn't fit with their editorial views, you don't get on.
2) No net neutrality. Translation: wealthy corporations get a "fast lane" on the internet. Everybody else will creep along at a snail's pace.
3) Internet 2 will be profit-structured to charge you consume. Translation: posting a lot of videos, watching a lot of YouTube, and playing videogames over the net will become a lot more expensive.

[williamina]

what, Bush a prophet, there are Internets? You have no clue about I2.

[TheyCalledMeSandN]

.. yikes.. very stressfull without the internet.. service began to recover here in alexandria, Egypt and finally i can read huffingtonpost again.. i was getting stressed not checking it for two days!!

[aweissnet]

Frightening how we've come to reply upon this connection to each other and the world ...

And it can be wiped out in a second.

[ashabot]

No matter what advances we make, all that we are and all that we do hangs by a thread.

[motoGpifupleez]

Shouldn't that image be of a ruptured tube?

[Sylmason]

Busheddddd­dddddddddd­ddddddd

[instagladiator]

No Service Left Behind!!

[halgarth]

Except the connection cable.

[mountainweb]

Hey, on the bright side, maybe this will make some companies think about outsourcing 100% of their critical systems to people in India with zero thought as to what would happen if they were cutoff for a week.!

[darthdarcy]

What no spam from Nigeria...!

Oh the humanity..!

[Perry Clease]

Interestingly I received more spam today than usual. Might just be circumstance though.

[Pete2069]

This could be use for a tie in for spying...