1st Cable Cut - “What’s the back up plan?”
2nd Cable Cut - “What’s going on here?”
3rd Cable Cut - “What are the odds of this being a simple coincidence?”
A third undersea Internet cable has been damaged in the Middle East, adding to the disruption in online services after two other lines were cut earlier this week, the cable operating firm said.
The Falcon cable was cut 56 kilometres (35 miles) from Dubai, between Oman and the United Arab Emirates, according to its owner, FLAG Telecom, which is part of India’s Reliance Communications.
The repair ship had been notified and was expected to arrive at the site in the next few days, the company said on its website.
Flag Telecom owns another cable that was damaged off Egypt on Wednesday. A repair ship was expected to arrive by Tuesday to restore that cable and repairs were expected to take a week, the company said.
The outages have disrupted business across the Middle East and South Asia, including in India, where businesses said it may take up to 15 days to return to normal.
A word to the wise: This should be a warning to both the Pentagon and to the Department of Homeland Security that telecommunications and Internet communications are going to become increasingly frequent targets for terrorists.
Story courtesy of National Terror Alert
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