This was the most common cause of Internet drop out at my last job. Apparently, there’s a lot of digging around Dallas. It really sucks.
So, how long before terrorists start doing this on purpose. Or would they refrain, because it would limit their own propaganda and communications? Several hundred miles of cable are impossible to guard, as we have found out in Iraq.
Ars Technica: Egypt says lay off music, movie downloads after ‘Net outage
Egypt’s Internet situation is in dire straits after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were accidentally severed yesterday, cutting off much of the country’s access to the outside world. 70 percent of the nation’s Internet has been disconnected, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, with phone calls to Europe and the US also being disrupted. As a result, the ministry has launched an emergency task force to deal with the situation and has asked the general public to avoid downloading more bandwidth-intensive items for now in order to allow businesses priority.