What are the odds four undersea cables are cut in a single week? Whatever those odds, it has happened. First two cables snap off Egypt. Then a separate cable in the Persian Gulf, and now yet another Middle East cable.
In the latest incident, an undersea telecoms cable linking Qatar to the United Arab Emirates was damaged, disrupting services, telecommunications provider Qtel has reported.
The cable was damaged between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE island of Das. The cause of the damage is not yet known.
Qtel's loss of capacity seems to be disrupting voice capacity more than Internet services. Qtel says it was operating at 40 percent over the weekend because alternative cables exist. Nevertheless, disruption to Internet and telephone services in the Gulf state is likely to continue for 10 another days or so.
Not since the December 2006 earthquake off Taiwan have so many cables been taken out of service almost at once.
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