Internet traffic hit by cable damage
Times Wire Reports
A robotic submarine searched beneath the Mediterranean for damaged communications cables that link Europe and the Middle East, two days after Web and telephone access was knocked out for much of the region.
Telecommunication providers from Cairo to Dubai scrambled to reroute voice and data traffic.
Internet access was largely knocked out for two days in at least six countries: Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Yemen.
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