Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Mon Feb 4 01:28:32 UTC 2008

So is this cause for concern or just "business as usual" with respect to the
daily operations of USFO cables?  Seems somewhat out of place to have four
within five days but then it might be only slightly abnormal and amplified
by the media paying more attention.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean at donelan.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 8:22 PM
To: Marcus H. Sachs
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i03tUdyj8wf2Xa9P4trWEjqAJdyQ
DOHA (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 at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Sean
> Donelan
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 6:52 PM
> To: nanog at 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.
>
>