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		<title>Countries Getting Internet Back After Cable Cutting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Caverly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We're still waiting to hear what caused damage to several underwater Internet cables; it's likely to be either especially interesting (in an apocalyptic, WWIII sense) or completely mundane (think rusty old anchors).&#160; But either way, affected nations are getting their access back.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re still waiting to hear what caused damage to several underwater Internet cables; it&#8217;s likely to be either especially interesting (in an apocalyptic, WWIII sense) or completely mundane (think rusty old anchors).&nbsp; But either way, affected nations are getting their access back.</p>
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<p>India seems to have a solid job of recovering, with <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSBOM2965420080201?sp=true" title="&quot;India Internet capacity at 80 pct after cables break&quot;">estimates</a> putting its connection speeds at anywhere between 70 and 90 percent of their previous standing.&nbsp; At least 60 million people were originally affected by outages and slowdowns, and some fancy rerouting is behind the improvement.</p>
<p>Elsewhere, <a href="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/510244-uae-unaffected-by-fourth-internet-cable-break-?ln=en" title="&quot;UAE unaffected by fourth internet cable break&quot;">Dylan Bowman</a> reports that Qatar Telecom&#8217;s &quot;loss of capacity has been kept below 40% thanks to what the telecom said was a large number of alternative routes for transmission.&quot;&nbsp; And a spokesman for the UAE&#8217;s Du corporation told Bowman, &quot;Our internet access is almost back to normal . . . and data services are 100% restored.&quot;</p>
<p>As for other areas, well . . . Egypt&#8217;s Internet is also getting back on its feet, and it seems that Iran wasn&#8217;t deeply affected in the first place.&nbsp; Initial reports seemed to suggest the country had been cut off, but <a href="http://uruknet.info/?p=m40831&amp;s1=h1" title="&quot;The 'No Internet in Iran' Story is Bullcrap, but that Didn&rsquo;t Stop 17 People from Submitting it&quot;">Uruknet</a> has countered those.</p>
<p>Now we (and people who have lost Internet connections) are just waiting for repair ships to reach and fix the damaged cables.&nbsp; With the Super Bowl over, thinking about what the ships will find could even become a new betting game.</p>
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