Internet speeds have slowed to a crawl in Middle East and parts of South Asia after two underwater telecommunications cables were damaged on 30 January 2008 in the Mediterranean Sea . This has reduced Internet capacity in Eqypt, Saudi Arabia and India. International telephone service has also been affected in some places. The authorities say this could take a week to fix the problem and get services back to normal. The theory of the damage is that they were hit by a ship's anchor.
This remind me of the Taiwan earthquake that happen on 26 December 2006. The quake had damaged the undersea fiber-optic cables, distrupting Internet communications over much of Asia.
The disruption to telecommunications has affected businesses, customer-service call-center industry...
source from voanews.com
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