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Third Undersea Cable Cut

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OK, so once is an accident. Twice a coincidence but, a third time in as many days? I find this one a little too convenient.

From the Globe and Mail:

Bandwidth providers in India said they were working to restore service to about 80 per cent of its usual speed Friday.

Many companies said their Internet access already had gotten better.

“We’ve been getting and sending e-mails normally. Compared to yesterday connectivity is certainly improved,” said Praveen Mathur of Streit India Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd., an New Delhi-based investment consulting firm with clients in the United States and Canada.

Rajesh Chharia, president of India’s Internet Service Provider’s Association, said access improved as service providers rerouted traffic across the Pacific.

In Egypt, Internet access remained sporadic or nonexistent Friday, the first day of the official Muslim weekend in the Middle East when all government offices and most businesses are closed. Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tarek Kamil said service would be up to about 80 per cent of its usual capacity within 48 hours.

Not a conspiracy theory so, you can dispel that one. I just find it a remarkable coincidence that three undersea cables got nailed in a week.

I’m just saying.

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  • becn said,

    February 1, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

    “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, third time is enemy action” is a line in the James Bond book Goldfinger, by Ian Fleming

    (apparently … I noted it sometime but not page etc)

    Dave Lewis said,

    February 1, 2008 @ 10:46 pm

    @becn

    Nicely done. I didn’t recall that one but, I do enjoy it.

    thanks.

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