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Friday, February 01, 2008
Internet Outages Between Egypt and India
Two major undersea cables have been cut off the coast of Egypt. The cuts have severly limited bandwidth between Egypt and India. So everyone from US Central Command, Iranian bloggers, Hezbollah terrorists, to Gulf State merchants are feeling the pain. Dubai et al are major player s these days in the world economy so the loss of easy communication, the life blood of globalization, will surely be felt around the world. Foriegn Policy Blog has more.
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