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Posted by danny burstein on January 31, 2008, 10:34 pm
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typical article:
"... Hi-tech Dubai has been hit hard by an Internet outage apparently caused by
a cut undersea cable.
Industry experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known
what caused the damage.
Reports say that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait,
Bahrain Pakistan and India, are all experiencing severe problems.
Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- whose traffic uses a
different route -- and Lebanon and Iraq. Many Middle East governments have
backup satellite systems in case of cable failure.
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The outage heavily crippled Dubai's business section, which is heavily
reliant on electronic means for billions of dollars' worth of transactions
daily.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html
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