Mahesh Jaishanker, an executive director for Du, said, “The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3 km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SEA-ME-WE 4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.” A router for a university in Tehran was not responding, causing some reports of a total loss of connectivity for Iran. ġ.7 million Internet users in the UAE were affected by the Internet disruption. The Kuwaitis also do not directly charge seafaring vessels, instead referring to "weather conditions and maritime traffic." The Economist reported that an earthquake may have caused the cable to fault.ĭisruptions of 70 percent in Egypt and 60 percent in India were reported, along with problems in Afghanistan-AWCC, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Maldives, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. The Egyptian Maritime Transport Ministry reviewed one day of complete video footage beginning 12 hours before and through 12 hours after the service disruption, concluding the cause of damage was not surface craft as no ships were traced sailing through the area of the alleged wire damage. A number of sources speculated these were caused by a dragging ship anchor near Alexandria. The cause of the damage to SEA-ME-WE 4 or FLAG has not been declared by either cable operator. While the respective contributions of the two cable systems to this blackout is unclear, network outage graphs show anomalies at 0430 UTC and again at 0800 UTC. The damage to the two systems occurred separately several kilometers apart near Alexandria. On 30 January 2008, news agencies reported Internet services were widely disrupted in the Middle East and in the Indian subcontinent following damage to the SEA-ME-WE 4 and FLAG Telecom cables in the Mediterranean Sea.
The FALCON cable system connects several countries in the Persian Gulf and India. Cables damaged 23 January Īlthough it was not reported at the time, there was a cut off of FALCON on 23 January. On 19 December, FLAG FEA, GO-1, SEA-ME-WE 3, and SEA-ME-WE 4 were all cut. In late February there was another outage, this time affecting a fiber optic connection between Singapore and Jakarta. The incident called into doubt the safety of the undersea portion of the Internet cable system. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East from 23 January to 4 February 2008, causing internet disruptions and slowdowns for users in the Middle East and India. The 2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. 4 Feb - SEA-ME-WE-4 near Penang, Malaysia.3 Feb - DOHA-HALOUL between Qatar and UAE.1 Feb - FALCON cable between Muscat and Dubai, UAE.23 Jan - FALCON cable near Bandar Abbas, Iran.
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