Four submarine Internet highways are damaged

Last week is marked by consecutive damages of four underwater communication cables, which supply with the connection Egypt, India, Gulf states and South-East Asia.
In the middle of last week in press was a wave of reports that not far from the port of Alexandria, at the north coast of Egypt, two cables were damaged, which were layed along the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. As a result of the incident 70% of internet networks in Egypt fell out, and in India carrying capacity of the channels fell half.
Initially, the problem affected submarine such cables as cables FLAG Europe-Asia and Sea-ME-We-4. First of them is of 28 thousand kilometers length and links Great Britain, Japan, and also several intermediate points. Cable Sea-ME-We-4 with the length of 18 thousand kilometers connects South-Eastern Asia, India, Middle East and Europe.
In February 1, as CNN reports, by a strange quirk another cable - FALCON was damaged, which connects India and several states of Gulf. Besides, some sources report about the damage of underwater main, through which Qatar receives the access to the World Network.
At first, they suggested that cables FLAG Europe-Asia and the Sea-ME-We-4 were damaged by the anchor of a ship. However, in February 3, the Egyptian Ministry of Communications announced that at the time of the accident there were no ships in the break area. A ship with the necessary repair equipment and a team of specialists put out already from Catania (Italy), and as it is expected will arrive to the damaged place of cables FLAG Europe-Asia and Sea-ME-We-4 in February 5. The repair of FALCON line is hampered by bad weather and storms. The maintenance ship is already equipped, but still cannot get out of the port, so the experts do not presume to pronounce the exact dates of repair of telecommunication lines.
Meanwhile, users around the world are experiencing difficulties in gaining access to some network resources. In some countries the connection had deteriorated to such an extent that it is almost impossible to work in the Internet.