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30_11ecb.xml_35 | train | evt | 30_11ecb.xml | 1 | Parts of Asia , the Middle East , and Europe experienced Internet and telephone outages Friday when three undersea cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | 13 | 13 | 70 | 79 | telephone | ACT16979291612697493 | telephone | ['part', 'asia', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'experience', 'internet', 'telephone', 'outage', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'italy', 'egypt', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage'] | Parts of Asia , the Middle East , and Europe experienced Internet and <m> telephone </m> outages Friday when three undersea cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | Damaged undersea cables disrupting service
Parts of Asia , the Middle East , and Europe experienced Internet and <m> telephone </m> outages Friday when three undersea cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The affected cable systems , which run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy , carry more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe , and the United States .
It 's still unclear how the cables were damaged or when they will be fixed .
Reliance Globalcom , a communications provider in India , told Bloomberg News that there was no time frame for getting the network fixed .
France Telecom said it plans to send a boat to fix the problem and should have service restored to normal by December 31 , according to Bloomberg .
The cable system that was cut is known as SMW4 cable or South East Asia- Middle East-Western Europe 4 .
It connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
Vodafone 's cell phone service in Egypt has been affected by the cable failure , according to Bloomberg .
Mobile phone service between Europe and Asia on Orange was also disrupted , the Bloomberg article said .
Orange officials told Bloomberg that at one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt , and 82 percent in India was out of service .
Telephone providers , such as Portugal Telecom and Reliance , told Bloomberg that they 've been rerouting traffic to other parts of their network to avoid issues .
But this rerouting has caused network congestion , which means slower Internet connections and some dropped phone calls .
In January , undersea cables outside Alexandria were also damaged , disrupting about 70 percent of the communications network in India and the Middle East . |
30_11ecb.xml_36 | train | evt | 30_11ecb.xml | 1 | Parts of Asia , the Middle East , and Europe experienced Internet and telephone outages Friday when three undersea cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | 11 | 11 | 57 | 65 | Internet | ACT16979276821862639 | internet | ['part', 'asia', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'experience', 'internet', 'telephone', 'outage', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'italy', 'egypt', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage'] | Parts of Asia , the Middle East , and Europe experienced <m> Internet </m> and telephone outages Friday when three undersea cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | Damaged undersea cables disrupting service
Parts of Asia , the Middle East , and Europe experienced <m> Internet </m> and telephone outages Friday when three undersea cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The affected cable systems , which run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy , carry more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe , and the United States .
It 's still unclear how the cables were damaged or when they will be fixed .
Reliance Globalcom , a communications provider in India , told Bloomberg News that there was no time frame for getting the network fixed .
France Telecom said it plans to send a boat to fix the problem and should have service restored to normal by December 31 , according to Bloomberg .
The cable system that was cut is known as SMW4 cable or South East Asia- Middle East-Western Europe 4 .
It connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
Vodafone 's cell phone service in Egypt has been affected by the cable failure , according to Bloomberg .
Mobile phone service between Europe and Asia on Orange was also disrupted , the Bloomberg article said .
Orange officials told Bloomberg that at one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt , and 82 percent in India was out of service .
Telephone providers , such as Portugal Telecom and Reliance , told Bloomberg that they 've been rerouting traffic to other parts of their network to avoid issues .
But this rerouting has caused network congestion , which means slower Internet connections and some dropped phone calls .
In January , undersea cables outside Alexandria were also damaged , disrupting about 70 percent of the communications network in India and the Middle East . |
30_12ecb.xml_63 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 39 | 41 | 208 | 231 | Reliance Globalcom Ltd. | 10000002774 | Globalcom | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at <m> Reliance Globalcom Ltd. </m> in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at <m> Reliance Globalcom Ltd. </m> in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_67 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 27 | 28 | 151 | 164 | Interoute Plc | 39 | Interoute | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's <m> Interoute Plc </m> , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's <m> Interoute Plc </m> , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_68 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 30 | 30 | 167 | 172 | which | 39 | which | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , <m> which </m> operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , <m> which </m> operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_56 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 32 | 33 | 168 | 180 | Sanjeev Gaur | 29 | Sanjeev | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said <m> Sanjeev Gaur </m> , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said <m> Sanjeev Gaur </m> , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_57 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 35 | 35 | 183 | 191 | director | 29 | director | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , <m> director </m> of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , <m> director </m> of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_53 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | 4 | 9 | 38 | 72 | between the Middle East and Europe | 25 | between | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'disrupt', 'submarine', 'cable', 'italy', 'egypt', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage'] | Internet and telephone communications <m> between the Middle East and Europe </m> were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications <m> between the Middle East and Europe </m> were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_54 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 12 | 17 | 57 | 91 | between Europe and the Middle East | 25 | between | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' <m> between Europe and the Middle East </m> , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' <m> between Europe and the Middle East </m> , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_60 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 42 | 43 | 232 | 240 | in India | 10000002775 | India | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. <m> in India </m> . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. <m> in India </m> .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_61 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | 20 | 23 | 141 | 165 | in the Mediterranean Sea | LOC16978830859817981 | Mediterranean | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'disrupt', 'submarine', 'cable', 'italy', 'egypt', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage'] | Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt <m> in the Mediterranean Sea </m> were damaged . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt <m> in the Mediterranean Sea </m> were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_71 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 38 | 39 | 221 | 230 | 92 cities | 10000002776 | city | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting <m> 92 cities </m> . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting <m> 92 cities </m> .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_73 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 10 | 17 | 61 | 105 | between the Middle East , Europe and America | 10000002777 | between | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic <m> between the Middle East , Europe and America </m> have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic <m> between the Middle East , Europe and America </m> have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
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Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables <m> between Italy and Egypt </m> in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
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Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine <m> cables </m> between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_65 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 1 | 2 | 6 | 19 | cable systems | NON16979235248815535 | system | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three <m> cable systems </m> carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three <m> cable systems </m> carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_72 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 35 | 36 | 197 | 209 | data network | 10000002778 | network | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic <m> data network </m> connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic <m> data network </m> connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_76 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 7 | 7 | 32 | 36 | data | 10000002779 | datum | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` <m> data </m> of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` <m> data </m> of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
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<m> Internet </m> and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_78 | train | ent | 30_12ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | 2 | 2 | 13 | 22 | telephone | NON26535628504190194 | telephone | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'disrupt', 'submarine', 'cable', 'italy', 'egypt', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage'] | Internet and <m> telephone </m> communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and <m> telephone </m> communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_52 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 29 | 29 | 152 | 160 | restored | 10000002780 | restore | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be <m> restored </m> , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be <m> restored </m> , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_58 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 2 | 2 | 13 | 16 | cut | ACT16979318564046465 | cut | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures <m> cut </m> the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures <m> cut </m> the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_59 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | 11 | 11 | 78 | 87 | disrupted | ACT16979318564046465 | disrupt | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'disrupt', 'submarine', 'cable', 'italy', 'egypt', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage'] | Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were <m> disrupted </m> after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were <m> disrupted </m> after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_62 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | failures | 10000002781 | failure | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The <m> failures </m> cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The <m> failures </m> cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_66 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 4 | 9 | 29 | 60 | more than 75 percent of traffic | 10000002782 | percent | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying <m> more than 75 percent of traffic </m> between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying <m> more than 75 percent of traffic </m> between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_69 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 31 | 31 | 173 | 181 | operates | 10000002783 | operate | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which <m> operates </m> a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which <m> operates </m> a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_70 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 3 | 3 | 20 | 28 | carrying | 10000002784 | carry | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems <m> carrying </m> more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems <m> carrying </m> more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_42 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 4 | 4 | 21 | 25 | flow | 10000002785 | flow | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the <m> flow </m> of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the <m> flow </m> of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_74 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 37 | 37 | 210 | 220 | connecting | 10000002786 | connect | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network <m> connecting </m> 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network <m> connecting </m> 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_43 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 26 | 26 | 129 | 143 | communications | ACT16979267820424588 | communication | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when <m> communications </m> will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when <m> communications </m> will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_44 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | 3 | 3 | 23 | 37 | communications | ACT16979267820424588 | communication | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'disrupt', 'submarine', 'cable', 'italy', 'egypt', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage'] | Internet and telephone <m> communications </m> between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone <m> communications </m> between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_47 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 20 | 20 | 116 | 123 | damaged | ACT16979225864150215 | damage | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been <m> damaged </m> , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been <m> damaged </m> , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_48 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged . | 25 | 25 | 171 | 178 | damaged | ACT16979225864150215 | damage | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'disrupt', 'submarine', 'cable', 'italy', 'egypt', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage'] | Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were <m> damaged </m> . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were <m> damaged </m> .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_55 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 31 | 31 | 163 | 167 | said | 10000002787 | say | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , <m> said </m> Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , <m> said </m> Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_75 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 4 | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | 22 | 23 | 126 | 138 | according to | 10000002788 | accord | ['cable', 'system', 'carry', '75', 'percent', 'traffic', 'middle', 'east', 'europe', 'america', 'damage', 'accord', 'u.k.', 'interoute', 'plc', 'operate', 'fiber-', 'optic', 'datum', 'network', 'connect', '92', 'city'] | Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , <m> according to </m> the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , <m> according to </m> the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_12ecb.xml_51 | train | evt | 30_12ecb.xml | 2 | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no timeframe for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | 23 | 23 | 110 | 119 | timeframe | 10000002789 | timeframe | ['failure', 'cut', 'flow', '``', 'datum', 'kind', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'timeframe', 'communication', 'restore', 'say', 'sanjeev', 'gaur', 'director', 'assurance', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'ltd.', 'india'] | The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no <m> timeframe </m> for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India . | Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged .
The failures cut the flow of `` data of various kinds '' between Europe and the Middle East , and there 's no <m> timeframe </m> for when communications will be restored , said Sanjeev Gaur , director of assurance at Reliance Globalcom Ltd. in India .
France Telecom SA , which plans to send a maintenance boat to fix the problem , said the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 .
Three cable systems carrying more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle East , Europe and America have been damaged , according to the U.K. 's Interoute Plc , which operates a fiber- optic data network connecting 92 cities .
The cables run from Alexandria in northern Egypt to Sicily in southern Italy .
In January , an anchor severed the cables outside Alexandria after bad weather conditions forced ships to moor off the coast .
`` The information we have is a bit sketchy , but chances are that it will have been an anchor again , `` Jonathan Wright , Interoute 's director of wholesale products , said in a telephone interview .
`` Close to 90 percent of all the data traffic between Europe and the Middle East is carried on these three cable systems . ''
Interoute said the January incident brought down 70 percent of the Internet network in India and the Middle East .
Customer services and some mobile-phone customers at Vodafone Group Plc 's Egyptian unit are affected by the cable failure , said Simon Gordon , a spokesman for the U.K. company .
Egypt is the only country where the company is aware of any problems linked to the failure , he said .
Most mobile-phone calls are routed through fixed-line cables at some point .
Verizon Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. phone company , said it has rerouted traffic for its Verizon Business customers making calls to the Middle East by siphoning it to Europe and the U.S. and then down through Asia , spokeswoman Linda Laughlin said in an interview .
The rerouting slowed some traffic to about half its normal speed , Laughlin said .
Point-to-point customers still do n't have connections , and Verizon does n't have information on how many subscribers are affected .
The company expects repairs to be completed by early next week , she said .
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's biggest phone company , has redirected traffic through other cables in the region and therefore the `` impact is very small , '' said a company official .
Sonaecom SGPS SA , Portugal 's second-biggest fixed-line phone company , also said that it 's diverting traffic to other routes .
France Telecom 's Orange mobile-phone unit said the cable failure `` greatly disturbed '' the traffic between Europe and parts of Asia .
At one point as much as 55 percent of voice traffic in Saudi Arabia , 52 percent in Egypt and 82 percent in India was out of service , according to Orange .
Internet traffic `` from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route , ''
Reliance said in an e-mailed `` traffic disruption update , '' adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services .
The company said it will publish another update on its Web site tomorrow .
`` You can reroute the data through other cables , but that increases traffic and can potentially create bottlenecks , '' Interoute 's Wright said .
`` So Internet connections may slow down and some phone calls could get disrupted . ''
Some of Interoute 's clients in the U.K. and Southern France are probably affected by the failure , Wright said .
`` It 's difficult to forecast how long it will take to fix the problem as it depends on the weather and sea conditions in the Mediterranean , '' Wright said .
A fault is affecting the SMW4 cable near the Alexandria cable station , the FLAG FEA cable is down and the SMW3 cable system is also affected , according to information received from Telstra .
Flag Telecom Group Ltd. , a Reliance Globalcom unit , operates FLAG FEA and the other cables are owned by groups of phone companies across the regions .
Reliance Globalcom does n't know exactly what happened and engineers are working on the problem , said Anurag Joshi , head of the company 's global network operations center .
The SMW4 cable , also known as SEA-ME-WE 4or South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable network , connects 12 countries : Pakistan , Indonesia , Singapore , Malaysia , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Italy and France .
France Telecom said one of its maintenance boats in the Mediterranean area is headed to the region for a relief mission with 20 kilometers of spare cable on board .
Priority will be to recover the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable , then the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable , France Telecom said , adding that Sea Me We4 could be operating by Dec. 25 and the situation should be back to normal by Dec. 31 . |
30_1ecb.xml_65 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 26 | 27 | 175 | 189 | France Telecom | HUM16978802686536281 | Telecom | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , <m> France Telecom </m> said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , <m> France Telecom </m> said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_82 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 5 | 5 | 27 | 31 | MENA | 10000002790 | MENA | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency <m> MENA </m> reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency <m> MENA </m> reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_86 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 35 | 35 | 202 | 209 | company | 10000002791 | company | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair <m> company </m> to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair <m> company </m> to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_90 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 28 | 29 | 148 | 166 | Reliance GlobalCom | 10000002792 | GlobalCom | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered <m> Reliance GlobalCom </m> directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered <m> Reliance GlobalCom </m> directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_69 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 35 | 35 | 179 | 188 | spokesman | 10000002793 | spokesman | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a <m> spokesman </m> said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a <m> spokesman </m> said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_64 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 8 | 9 | 59 | 70 | Middle East | 10000002794 | Middle | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the <m> Middle East </m> and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the <m> Middle East </m> and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_66 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 11 | 11 | 75 | 79 | Asia | 10000002795 | Asia | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and <m> Asia </m> were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and <m> Asia </m> were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_80 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 11 | 15 | 64 | 87 | off the coast of Sicily | 10000002796 | Sicily | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened <m> off the coast of Sicily </m> at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened <m> off the coast of Sicily </m> at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_87 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 21 | 21 | 114 | 120 | Sicily | 10000002797 | Sicily | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking <m> Sicily </m> to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking <m> Sicily </m> to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_56 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 22 | 23 | 121 | 129 | to Egypt | LOC16978817298499701 | Egypt | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily <m> to Egypt </m> , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily <m> to Egypt </m> , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_57 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 22 | 24 | 152 | 172 | in the Mediterranean | LOC16978830859817981 | Mediterranean | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged <m> in the Mediterranean </m> , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged <m> in the Mediterranean </m> , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_58 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 10 | 16 | 44 | 91 | in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia | LOC16978830859817981 | Mediterranean | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located <m> in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia </m> , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located <m> in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia </m> , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_59 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 38 | 40 | 218 | 231 | to the region | LOC16978830859817981 | region | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head <m> to the region </m> to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head <m> to the region </m> to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_63 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 5 | 5 | 46 | 52 | Europe | 10000002798 | Europe | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between <m> Europe </m> , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between <m> Europe </m> , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_102 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 33 | 33 | 189 | 194 | cable | 10000002799 | cable | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine <m> cable </m> repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine <m> cable </m> repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_75 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 19 | 19 | 97 | 105 | sections | 10000002800 | section | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on <m> sections </m> linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on <m> sections </m> linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_94 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 19 | 19 | 132 | 138 | cables | NON16979235248815535 | cable | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea <m> cables </m> were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea <m> cables </m> were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_95 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 44 | 44 | 243 | 249 | cables | NON16979235248815535 | cable | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the <m> cables </m> . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the <m> cables </m> .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_84 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 16 | 18 | 88 | 99 | at 10:00 am | 10000002801 | 10:00 | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily <m> at 10:00 am </m> ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily <m> at 10:00 am </m> ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_85 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 20 | 21 | 102 | 110 | 0800 GMT | 10000002802 | 0800 | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( <m> 0800 GMT </m> ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( <m> 0800 GMT </m> ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_105 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 23 | 24 | 113 | 122 | on Friday | TIM16979333607751084 | Friday | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) <m> on Friday </m> , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) <m> on Friday </m> , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_106 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 2 | 2 | 13 | 22 | telephone | NON26535628504190194 | telephone | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and <m> telephone </m> communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and <m> telephone </m> communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_108 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | Internet | NON26535665966419718 | internet | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | <m> Internet </m> and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
<m> Internet </m> and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_109 | train | ent | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 15 | 15 | 104 | 110 | Friday | TIM16979333607751084 | Friday | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted <m> Friday </m> after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted <m> Friday </m> after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_70 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 25 | 25 | 132 | 138 | remain | 10000002803 | remain | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , <m> remain </m> unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , <m> remain </m> unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_71 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | causes | 10000002804 | cause | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The <m> causes </m> of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The <m> causes </m> of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_68 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 9 | 9 | 36 | 43 | located | 10000002805 | locate | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is <m> located </m> in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is <m> located </m> in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_103 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 34 | 34 | 195 | 201 | repair | 10000002806 | repair | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable <m> repair </m> company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable <m> repair </m> company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_104 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 20 | 20 | 106 | 113 | linking | 10000002807 | link | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections <m> linking </m> Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections <m> linking </m> Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_73 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 44 | 44 | 226 | 232 | attack | 10000002808 | attack | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an <m> attack </m> . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an <m> attack </m> .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_76 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 21 | 21 | 144 | 151 | damaged | ACT16979225864150215 | damage | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were <m> damaged </m> in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were <m> damaged </m> in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_77 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 5 | 5 | 21 | 24 | cut | ACT16979225864150215 | cut | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the <m> cut </m> , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the <m> cut </m> , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_78 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 9 | 9 | 50 | 54 | cuts | ACT16979225864150215 | cut | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the <m> cuts </m> happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the <m> cuts </m> happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_81 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 37 | 37 | 213 | 217 | head | 10000002809 | head | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to <m> head </m> to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to <m> head </m> to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_83 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 10 | 10 | 55 | 63 | happened | 10000002810 | happen | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts <m> happened </m> off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts <m> happened </m> off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_88 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 42 | 42 | 235 | 238 | fix | 10000002811 | fix | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to <m> fix </m> the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to <m> fix </m> the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_89 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 30 | 30 | 167 | 176 | directing | 10000002812 | direct | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom <m> directing </m> a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom <m> directing </m> a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_62 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 14 | 14 | 94 | 103 | disrupted | ACT16979307596980472 | disrupt | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely <m> disrupted </m> Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely <m> disrupted </m> Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_67 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 31 | 31 | 164 | 168 | said | 10000002813 | say | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement <m> said </m> , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement <m> said </m> , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_72 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 30 | 30 | 154 | 163 | statement | 10000002814 | statement | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a <m> statement </m> said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a <m> statement </m> said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_74 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 2 | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack . | 36 | 36 | 189 | 193 | said | 10000002815 | say | ['``', 'cause', 'cut', 'locate', 'mediterranean', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'section', 'link', 'sicily', 'egypt', 'remain', 'unclear', 'statement', 'say', 'spokesman', 'say', 'unlikely', 'attack'] | `` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman <m> said </m> it was unlikely to have been an attack . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman <m> said </m> it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_79 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 28 | 28 | 190 | 194 | said | 10000002816 | say | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom <m> said </m> . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom <m> said </m> .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_91 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 7 | Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | 6 | 6 | 32 | 40 | reported | 10000002817 | report | ['egypt', 'state', 'news', 'agency', 'mena', 'report', 'cut', 'happen', 'coast', 'sicily', '10:00', '0800', 'gmt', 'friday', 'indian-registered', 'reliance', 'globalcom', 'direct', 'submarine', 'cable', 'repair', 'company', 'head', 'region', 'fix', 'cable'] | Egypt 's state news agency MENA <m> reported </m> that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA <m> reported </m> that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_1ecb.xml_107 | train | evt | 30_1ecb.xml | 1 | Internet and telephone communications between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | 3 | 3 | 23 | 37 | communications | ACT16979267820424588 | communication | ['internet', 'telephone', 'communication', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'severely', 'disrupt', 'friday', 'undersea', 'cable', 'damage', 'mediterranean', 'france', 'telecom', 'say'] | Internet and telephone <m> communications </m> between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said . | Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe , Asia , Mideast
Internet and telephone <m> communications </m> between Europe , the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted Friday after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean , France Telecom said .
`` The causes of the cut , which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia , on sections linking Sicily to Egypt , remain unclear , '' a statement said , while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack .
The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 before normal service was restored .
Most business-to-business traffic between Europe and Asia was being rerouted through the United States , the firm said , but regular communications between Europe and several Asian countries has been disrupted since early Friday .
Sixty-five per cent of traffic to India was down , while services to Singapore , Malaysia , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Taiwan and Pakistan were also severely affected , a spokesman said Friday evening .
An afternoon toll released by France Telecom said that 100 percent of traffic was lost in the Maldives Indian Ocean islands , with the Gulf state of Qatar and Djibouti , on the Gulf of Aden , also losing over 70 percent of their traffic .
Egypt 's state news agency MENA reported that the cuts happened off the coast of Sicily at 10:00 am ( 0800 GMT ) on Friday , with Indian-registered Reliance GlobalCom directing a submarine cable repair company to head to the region to fix the cables .
The agency added that services were being rerouted to backup cables and satellites to compensate for the failures .
The cables are jointly owned by several dozen different countries .
One of the cables is 40,000 kilometres ( 25,000 miles ) long and links 33 different countries while a second is 20,000 kilometres long and serves 14 states .
`` If there was just one cable down we could have used the other two , '' said France Telecom spokesman Louis-Michel Aymard .
`` But all three are down so this puts us in a very difficult situation .
`` This is a very rare situation , '' he said .
The cables might have got caught up in trawlers ' nets or there may have been an underwater landslide , said Aymard .
One appeared to be fully severed , while the other two seemed to be only partially cut , he added .
Each cable has a `` leader '' country , he said. Egypt is in charge of the main cable and in this capacity commissioned France Telecom Marine , a subsidiary of the communications giant , to handle the repairs .
The boat , with 20 kilometres ( 12.5 miles ) of spare cable on board , will leave very early Saturday and arrive Monday .
In January , five cables in the Middle East and Europe were cut , causing Internet failures in the region and damaging traffic through the region 's important call centre industry .
France Telecom said it would publish updates on its website on the latest traffic disruption .
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected , it said . |
30_8ecbplus.xml_2 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 4 | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | SEACOM | HUM16978789230607695 | SEACOM | ['seacom', 'say', 'today', '10', 'october', '2011', 'total', 'repair', 'time', 'current', 'problem', 'experience', 'day', 'depend', 'weather', 'condition'] | <m> SEACOM </m> said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
<m> SEACOM </m> said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_3 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 4 | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | 17 | 17 | 89 | 93 | they | HUM16978789230607695 | they | ['seacom', 'say', 'today', '10', 'october', '2011', 'total', 'repair', 'time', 'current', 'problem', 'experience', 'day', 'depend', 'weather', 'condition'] | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems <m> they </m> experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems <m> they </m> experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_65 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 5 | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | 17 | 17 | 92 | 97 | cable | NON17035846989853747 | cable | ['seacom', 'start', 'experience', 'problem', 'saturday', '8', 'october', '2011', 'cause', 'problem', 'cable', 'abu', 'talat', 'egypt', 'marseilles', 'france'] | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a <m> cable </m> between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a <m> cable </m> between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_41 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 5 | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | 5 | 9 | 38 | 64 | on Saturday 8 October 2011 | TIM16979156366104100 | Saturday | ['seacom', 'start', 'experience', 'problem', 'saturday', '8', 'october', '2011', 'cause', 'problem', 'cable', 'abu', 'talat', 'egypt', 'marseilles', 'france'] | SEACOM started to experience problems <m> on Saturday 8 October 2011 </m> , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems <m> on Saturday 8 October 2011 </m> , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_39 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 4 | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | 2 | 6 | 12 | 35 | today ( 10 October 2011 | 10000002818 | October | ['seacom', 'say', 'today', '10', 'october', '2011', 'total', 'repair', 'time', 'current', 'problem', 'experience', 'day', 'depend', 'weather', 'condition'] | SEACOM said <m> today ( 10 October 2011 </m> ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said <m> today ( 10 October 2011 </m> ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_62 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 4 | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | 12 | 12 | 60 | 64 | time | TIM16979085674500146 | time | ['seacom', 'say', 'today', '10', 'october', '2011', 'total', 'repair', 'time', 'current', 'problem', 'experience', 'day', 'depend', 'weather', 'condition'] | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair <m> time </m> of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair <m> time </m> of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_34 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 4 | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | 21 | 23 | 113 | 131 | around twelve days | TIM16979085674500146 | around | ['seacom', 'say', 'today', '10', 'october', '2011', 'total', 'repair', 'time', 'current', 'problem', 'experience', 'day', 'depend', 'weather', 'condition'] | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be <m> around twelve days </m> depending on weather conditions . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be <m> around twelve days </m> depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_68 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 1 | SEACOM problems only resolved next week | 4 | 5 | 30 | 39 | next week | TIM16979085674500146 | next | ['seacom', 'problem', 'resolve', 'week'] | SEACOM problems only resolved <m> next week </m> | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved <m> next week </m>
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_69 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 1 | SEACOM problems only resolved next week | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | SEACOM | HUM16978789230607695 | SEACOM | ['seacom', 'problem', 'resolve', 'week'] | <m> SEACOM </m> problems only resolved next week | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
<m> SEACOM </m> problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_70 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 5 | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | SEACOM | HUM16978789230607695 | SEACOM | ['seacom', 'start', 'experience', 'problem', 'saturday', '8', 'october', '2011', 'cause', 'problem', 'cable', 'abu', 'talat', 'egypt', 'marseilles', 'france'] | <m> SEACOM </m> started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
<m> SEACOM </m> started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_71 | train | ent | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 5 | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | 18 | 28 | 98 | 151 | between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) | LOC16978846247603729 | Marseilles | ['seacom', 'start', 'experience', 'problem', 'saturday', '8', 'october', '2011', 'cause', 'problem', 'cable', 'abu', 'talat', 'egypt', 'marseilles', 'france'] | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable <m> between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) </m> . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable <m> between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) </m> .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_43 | train | evt | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 5 | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | 11 | 11 | 67 | 73 | caused | ACT17042341645407130 | cause | ['seacom', 'start', 'experience', 'problem', 'saturday', '8', 'october', '2011', 'cause', 'problem', 'cable', 'abu', 'talat', 'egypt', 'marseilles', 'france'] | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , <m> caused </m> by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , <m> caused </m> by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_11 | train | evt | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 4 | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | 16 | 16 | 80 | 88 | problems | ACT16979013736492808 | problem | ['seacom', 'say', 'today', '10', 'october', '2011', 'total', 'repair', 'time', 'current', 'problem', 'experience', 'day', 'depend', 'weather', 'condition'] | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current <m> problems </m> they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current <m> problems </m> they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_12 | train | evt | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 4 | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | 18 | 18 | 94 | 104 | experience | ACT17038118488700898 | experience | ['seacom', 'say', 'today', '10', 'october', '2011', 'total', 'repair', 'time', 'current', 'problem', 'experience', 'day', 'depend', 'weather', 'condition'] | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they <m> experience </m> will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they <m> experience </m> will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_13 | train | evt | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 4 | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | 24 | 24 | 132 | 141 | depending | 10000002819 | depend | ['seacom', 'say', 'today', '10', 'october', '2011', 'total', 'repair', 'time', 'current', 'problem', 'experience', 'day', 'depend', 'weather', 'condition'] | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days <m> depending </m> on weather conditions . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days <m> depending </m> on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_14 | train | evt | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 4 | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions . | 26 | 27 | 145 | 163 | weather conditions | 10000002820 | condition | ['seacom', 'say', 'today', '10', 'october', '2011', 'total', 'repair', 'time', 'current', 'problem', 'experience', 'day', 'depend', 'weather', 'condition'] | SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on <m> weather conditions </m> . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on <m> weather conditions </m> .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_15 | train | evt | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 5 | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | 3 | 3 | 18 | 28 | experience | ACT17038118488700898 | experience | ['seacom', 'start', 'experience', 'problem', 'saturday', '8', 'october', '2011', 'cause', 'problem', 'cable', 'abu', 'talat', 'egypt', 'marseilles', 'france'] | SEACOM started to <m> experience </m> problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to <m> experience </m> problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_16 | train | evt | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 5 | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | 4 | 4 | 29 | 37 | problems | ACT16979013736492808 | problem | ['seacom', 'start', 'experience', 'problem', 'saturday', '8', 'october', '2011', 'cause', 'problem', 'cable', 'abu', 'talat', 'egypt', 'marseilles', 'france'] | SEACOM started to experience <m> problems </m> on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience <m> problems </m> on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_17 | train | evt | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 5 | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | 14 | 14 | 79 | 86 | problem | ACT17036014484717700 | problem | ['seacom', 'start', 'experience', 'problem', 'saturday', '8', 'october', '2011', 'cause', 'problem', 'cable', 'abu', 'talat', 'egypt', 'marseilles', 'france'] | SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a <m> problem </m> on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) . | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM problems only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a <m> problem </m> on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |
30_8ecbplus.xml_53 | train | evt | 30_8ecbplus.xml | 1 | SEACOM problems only resolved next week | 1 | 1 | 7 | 15 | problems | ACT16979013736492808 | problem | ['seacom', 'problem', 'resolve', 'week'] | SEACOM <m> problems </m> only resolved next week | http : / / mybroadband . co . za / news / telecoms / 35702 - seacom - problems - only - resolved - next - week . html
SEACOM <m> problems </m> only resolved next week
Initial estimates indicate that the total SEACOM repair time will be around twelve days
October 10 , 2011
SEACOM said today ( 10 October 2011 ) that the total repair time of the current problems they experience will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
SEACOM started to experience problems on Saturday 8 October 2011 , caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat ( Egypt ) and Marseilles ( France ) .
"Initial estimates indicate that the total repair time will be around twelve days depending on weather conditions .
This entails gaining the necessary permits and the actual repair time .
A repair vessel has been notified of the call - out and mobilization will occur immediately once permits are received , " SEACOM said in an official statement .
"The outage initially affected all SEACOM traffic to Europe , however SEACOM was able to restore some services by Saturday afternoon . "
"Further restoration has continued throughout the weekend in cooperation with customers and partners and SEACOM will continue to actively work on securing additional capacity for all necessary services over the next day or two . " |