Brian, It would really help if you included links to your sources on this very important or lucrative issue (depends on the side), moreso when UN is mentioned Asante Alex --- brian <brian@caret.net> wrote:
While the middle eastern cables are being hit (cut) by saboteurs. Another form of sabotage is being aimed at projects like our TEAMS. The article in this weeks papers give some indication but there is much more afoot as some of the "competing" cable projects try to put in all manner of blocks against our project.
Nevertheless, we shall overcome.
Brian
Via: AFP:
Damage to several undersea telecom cables that caused outages across the Middle East and Asia could have been an act of sabotage, the International Telecommunication Union said on Monday.
âWe do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago,â the UN agencyâs head of development, Sami al-Murshed, told AFP.
Five undersea cables were damaged in late January and early February leading to disruption to Internet and telephone services in parts of the Middle East and south Asia.
There has been speculation that the sheer number of cables being cut over such a short period was too much of a coincidence and that sabotage must have been involved.
Indiaâs Flag telecom revealed on February 7 that the cut to the Falcon cable between the United Arab Emirates and Oman was caused by a shipâs anchor. But mystery shrouds what caused another four reported cuts.
âSome experts doubt the prevailing view that the cables were cut by accident, especially as the cables lie at great depths under the sea and are not passed over by ships,â Murshed said on the sidelines of a conference on cyber-crime held in Gulf state of Qatar.
The Falcon cable has since been repaired, along with the Flag Europe Asia (FEA) cable which was damaged off Egyptâs Mediterranean coast. The status of the remaining cable is still unclear.
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