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Cable cuts disrupt internet

Full service likely by Friday

Star Business Report
Internet and telephone communication services in and out of Bangladesh may face partial disruptions for a week, hit by damage to three undersea cables through the Mediterranean.
Monwar Hossain, managing director of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited, §aid: "Consortiums of the three disrupted cables have already informed us that full service may get back in place by December 26."
"Internet speed may remain slow." The services are being propped up by VSATs (very small aperture terminals).
Internet and telephone communications between Europe, the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted on Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean, AFP said, quoting France Telecom.
"The causes of the cut, which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and TYinisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt, remain unclear," a statement said, while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack.
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday.
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States, the firm said, but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been
disrupted since early Friday.
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down, while services to Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected, a spokesman said.
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands, with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti, on the Gulf of Aden, also losing over 70 percent of their traffic.
Egypt's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily on Friday, with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables.
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures.
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries. One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres (25,000 miles) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states.
"If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two," said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard. "But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation."
"This is a very rare situation, " he said.
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide, said Aymard. One appeared to be fully severed, while the other two seemed to be only partially cut. he added.