The various internet failures over the past week have occurred in Egypt, are possibly the result of sabotage. Wednesday arrested the Egyptian coast guard, three of the divers who were busy with the severing of an internet cable.
Although the three men were arrested as they left the cable still attached to the cut were, as the Egyptian army on its Facebook page, is the attempt probably succeeded: the internet cable since Wednesday morning, no more data. The three divers damaged cable is the so-called SEA-ME-WE 4 cable company Seacom, that of France to Singapore.
As a result of the line break have hundreds of networks in Africa and Asia have no connection, reports Computerworld. The incident follows in addition to other breakdowns in Seacom, that internet connectivity in Africa, provides. According to Reuters, wants to Seacom does not indicate which failures are caused, but there seems to be so sabotage in the game.
The internet relies on undersea cables for intercontinental traffic. Europe and North America through a number of cables connected to each other, but to Asia and Africa are less cables. The severing of cables for internet users in that region therefore has a lot more consequences. It happens more often that submarine cables found to be defective, for example, by anchors of ships. The repair of cables is a complicated and expensive task, which may take a long time.
