Internet Repairs Underway
December 22nd, 2008 - Chris Marshall
A French crew has begun to repair two undersea cables in the Mediterranean that were severed on Friday, disrupting internet and phone communications.
A robot submarine will locate the ends of the cables on the sea bed and bring them to the surface to be re-connected. They were cut somewhere between Sicily and Tunisia, probably by an anchor.
Not sure if this will have effected anybody locally (I suffered big time the last time a cable was cut when I was in Dubai) but I know of a few people who have been without the Internet for a while. We lost both our phone and Internet a couple of weeks ago but that certainly wasn’t related, and I doubt very much that the current Vodaphone 3G woes are related to this ….. that is just a case of overloading on a network that can’t sustain the traffic I guess!!!
