An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the United Arab Emirates have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage, an expert said yesterday, quoting recent figures published by TeleGeography, an international research Web site.
Internet data was majority affected as it is the biggest capacity carried by the undersea cables.
However, all voice calls, corporate data and video traffic were also affected.
Two telecom experts yesterday briefed the media on the current methods being undertaken by the telecom provider to re-route the Internet traffic to provide normal operations to the users.
Quoting TeleGeography and describing the effect the cuts had on the Internet world, Mahesh Jaishanker, executive director, Business Development and Marketing, said, “The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.”
A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
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