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RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:22:20 -0500 (EST)
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i03tUdyj8wf2Xa9P4trWEjqAJdyQDOHA (AFP) . An undersea telecoms cable linking Qatar to the United Arab Emirates was damaged, disrupting services, telecommunications provider Qtel said on Sunday, the latest such incident in less than a week.
The cable was damaged between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE island of Das on Friday, Qtel's head of communications Adel al Mutawa told AFP.
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Marcus H. Sachs wrote:
Sean, do you have any URLs with additional info on the new cut? Questions are being asked. Marc -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 6:52 PM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) A fourth submarine cable in the middle east was damaged Sunday between Haloul, Qatar and Das, United Arab Emirates. This is in addition to the damage affecting FLAG, SAE-ME-WE4, FALCON cables. Afer reviewing surveillance video of the area, Egypt's ministry of maritime transportation is reporting no ships were near the FLAG or SAE-ME-WE4 cables 12-hours before or after the cable damage near Alexanderia, Egypt. The reason for outage of the cables has not been identified yet.
Current thread:
- Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Marshall Eubanks (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Martin Hannigan (Feb 03)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Marcus H. Sachs (Feb 03)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Marcus H. Sachs (Feb 03)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 04)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Marshall Eubanks (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Todd Underwood (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Raymond Macharia (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Martin Hannigan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Mark Newton (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Patrick Clochesy (Feb 04)
- [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Alex Pilosov (Feb 04)