December 19, 2008
Egypt: Mass Internet Outage After Cables Cut
Suspicious or accident?
CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt's communications ministry says Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea have been cut, causing massive Internet outages.The ministry says three Internet cables running through the Mediterranean were cut Friday morning. Throughout the country the Internet is almost completely down or working sporadically.
Yemen and Sudan were also having phone and Internet difficulties Friday, but it was unclear if it was connected to the outage.
On a positive note, the online jihad will also be affected.
By Stable Hand at December 19, 2008 11:02 AM | | l digg this
