Full Repairs To Damaged Red Sea Internet Cables Delayed by Yemen Political Splits (bloomberg.com) 11
Full repairs to three submarine internet cables damaged in the Red Sea in February are being held up by disputes over who controls access to infrastructure in Yemeni waters. From a report: The Yemeni government has granted permits for the repair of two out of three cables, but refused the third because of a dispute with one of the cable's consortium members. Repairs to the Seacom and EIG cables have been approved, but the consortium that runs AAE-1, which includes telecommunications company TeleYemen, was not granted a permit by Yemen's internationally recognized government, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.
Three out of more than a dozen cables that run through the Red Sea, a critical route for connecting Europe's internet infrastructure to Asia's, were knocked offline by the Houthi-sunk Rubymar vessel in late February. Although the telecommunications data that passes along the damaged cables was re-routed, the incident highlighted the vulnerability of critical subsea infrastructure and the challenges of making repairs in a conflict zone. The dispute over the third cable derives from the split political control of TeleYemen, the country's sole telecommunications provider, a reflection of the country's broader geopolitical divisions.
Three out of more than a dozen cables that run through the Red Sea, a critical route for connecting Europe's internet infrastructure to Asia's, were knocked offline by the Houthi-sunk Rubymar vessel in late February. Although the telecommunications data that passes along the damaged cables was re-routed, the incident highlighted the vulnerability of critical subsea infrastructure and the challenges of making repairs in a conflict zone. The dispute over the third cable derives from the split political control of TeleYemen, the country's sole telecommunications provider, a reflection of the country's broader geopolitical divisions.
Moses (Score:1)
Re:Moses (Score:5, Funny)
I'm just waiting for the Photoshop of Charles Heston parting the Red Sea [pinimg.com] with a cable maintenance crew working in the opening.
Great, they cut themselves off the Internet (Score:1)
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Yemen to put it lightly, has issues, even well before the recent civil war, or the Houthi conflict.
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Please, feel free to cut off your nose to spite your face, geniuses.
You seriously think they care about the Internet? The prophet Muhammad PBUH hadn't said nothing about any internets, and neither did Allah ta'ala. OTOH, Internet was created by the great American Satan, wasn't it? Okay, there probably do exist some sane people in Yemen, possibly including the internationally recognized government, but the Houthis, for example, are in full Jihad mode right now. And in Jihad you have priorities, and the Internet is surely not among them.
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IMHO, Saudi Arabia has yet to prove that they're any better.
Well... (Score:1)
It was a lot easier when the storm-troopers could just shoot the sandpeople that got in the way with those precise blaster shots. I blame Disney!
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Anakin deals with sandpeople more effectively than a whole Stormtrooper legion.
But what if they're Dune Fremen, rather than sandpeople?