If you have buddies or business partners from the Middle East or India, don’t expect an email or a Private Message coming from them for a week or so. The reason being that they are disconnected to the Internet; no, it’s not because of some government crackdown or terrorist activity, but rather because of two damaged undersea cables in the Mediterranean.

There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption.
UK firms such as British Airways have told the BBC that call centres have been affected by the outage.
Industry experts said it could take up to one week to repair the damaged cables and resume full service.
International telephone calls, which have also been affected, are being rerouted to work around the problem.

Not to worry though, repairs are underway and you’ll get that email from your boss really soon.
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