Submarine Cable Cuts Still A Mystery, (The Fifth Cable Cut Reported)

The recent damages to submarine cables serving Middle East and South East Asia hve taken turns and now it is reported that the fifth cable is also cut. All these began on January 23 when the Flag Telecoms FALCON undersea fiber optic cable near the Egypt was damaged. On January 30 another cable called the SeaMeWe-4 cable was cut. Egyptian officials have reviewed the ship traffic in the area at the time of the damage and have ruled out that the damage was caused by a ships anchor.
On February 1st second cut was found in the FALCON cable, which resulted in severe disruption of data service in the Gulf region and South East Asia. So far the damages includes the FLAG Europe-Asia cable near Alexandria, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran, SeaMeWe-4 near Alexandria, SeaMeWe-4 near Penang, Malaysia, and FLAG near the Dubai coast.
Mahesh Jaishanker executive director of Business Development and Marketing for TeleGeography is saying, “The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.”
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