A French ship has begun repairing two undersea cables in the Mediterranean that were severed on Friday, disrupting internet and phone communications.A robot submarine will locate the ends of the cables on the sea bed and bring them to the surface to be re-connected.They were cut within 5 minutes of each other, possibly by a trawler net.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7795320.stmEgypt gov’t says 80 pct of Internet capacity is back
More than 80 percent of Egypt’s Internet capacity has been restored, the government said on Sunday, two days after breaks in cables under the Mediterranean disrupted the service in the Arab country.
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Repairs begin on Mediterranean undersea cable
A French ship has begun repairing two undersea cables in the Mediterranean that were severed on Friday, disrupting internet and phone communications.