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'No ship behind ME internet
outage'
Press
TV
Monday February 4, 2008
Egypt denies the earlier reports on the Mideast Internet outage,
saying there were no ships present around when the cables were
cut off.
Egypt's Ministry of Communications announced in a statement Sunday
that "a marine transport committee investigated the traffic
of ships in the area, 12 hours before and after the malfunction,
where the cables are located to figure out the possibility of
being cut by a passing vessel and found out there were no passing
ships at that time.”
The Ministry had originally stated that a ship dropping its anchor
on the two key cables was most likely responsible for Wednesday's
cut in service that robbed Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India of much
of their internet.
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The statement added that the location, 8.3 kilometers from the
port of Alexandria, was in a restricted area so ships would not
have been allowed there to begin with.
Internet blackouts are impacting large tracts of Asia, the Middle
East and North Africa after four undersea cable connections were
severed.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait,
Bahrain, Pakistan and India, are all experiencing severe problems.
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