Hi-tech Dubai has been hit hard by an Internet outage apparently caused by a cut undersea cable.Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started Wednesday, on a major undersea cable failure in the Mediterranean. India's Internet bandwidth has been sliced in half, The Associated Press reported, leaving its lucrative outsourcing industry trying to reroute traffic to satellites and other cables through Asia.
This is a major issue! There are literally thousands of companies that outsource to these countries. In Dubai the outage led to a rapid collapse of a wide range of public services in a country which proudly promotes itself as technological pioneer. There are warnings that if the outage continues, "such a situation could create problems between brokers, companies, and investors due to loss of control."
Imagine if there was such an outage in the US...
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