Mass Internet outages in Egypt

Mass Internet outages in Egypt

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CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt suffered a massive Internet outage after cables in the Mediterranean were cut, the Communications Ministry said Friday.

Three Internet cables were cut off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily on Friday morning, the ministry said in a statement. The cause of the cut was not immediately known. Throughout Egypt, the Internet is almost completely down or working sporadically.

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Ok, I think this is very very fishy. Cables don't just cut themselves.
It's been happening earlier this year and in the same region.

What are the odds of that happening by accident, twice.

It seems that these kinds of ''Accidents'' is only happening in middle-east. I've never heard of cables being cut in America.



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