Much of Middle East, India Lose Net Access

January 30th, 2008 | Category: Gadget News

An under-the-Mediterranean cable was damaged today — they don’t know how — and much of the Middle East has LOST Web ACCESS. Some 70 percent of Egyptian users can’t

connect, and widespread outages are reported in Dubai (including Net City and Knowledge Village), Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. India has additionally “suffered a 60% disruption.”

Orginal post by Mike

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