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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Internet service across swaths of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East has been disrupted following damages to undersea cables of major providers to the areas.

A statement from Hong Kong telecom HGC Global Communications says as much as 25% of the traffic in the areas has been impacted.

The disruption of the cables did not disconnect any country from the internet, but the Wall Street Journal reports service in India, Pakistan, and parts of East Africa was noticeably degraded.

The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has experts wondering about the timing and severity of this outage, though.

Houthi control of the region and the ongoing strife in Yemen makes repairing the damaged cables more complicated.

One of the four companies affected said it expects to start that process early in the second quarter, though permit issues, weather, and the civil war in that country could impact that.


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