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| Ship Accidents Sever Data Cables Off East Africa | |
| 2012-02-29 | |
A ship dragging its anchor off the coast of the Kenyan port city of Mombasa severed a crucial Internet and phone link for the region Saturday, crippling electronic communications from Zimbabwe to Djibouti, according to a public-private consortium that owns the undersea cable. The Indian Ocean fiber-optic cable, known as The East African Marine Systems, or Teams, is owned by a group of telecom companies and the Kenyan government. It was the fourth cable to be severed in the region since Feb. 17. The Teams cable had been rerouting data from three other cables severed 10 days ago in the Red Sea between Djibouti and the Middle East. Together, the four fiber-optic cables channel thousands of gigabytes of information per second and form the backbone of East Africa's telecom infrastructure. Telecom companies were reeling over the weekend as engineers attempted to reroute data south along the East African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Total bull. These multiple service cuts are done to ensure that anti-virus programs don't get updates. Someone somewhere in the denied area is being pwnd. Why and how is for the future to describe. And they will not see this comment until the operation is complete. As for now, all your base belong to us. |
| Posted by: rammer 2012-02-29 23:35 |
| #2 No, this is a recent cut. Someone dragged anchor across some cables. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-02-29 23:01 |
| #1 Isn't this Artic from EOY 2011??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-29 21:32 |