3 Submarine cable cuts affecting the Internet Traffic of Egypt!!!

In less than a Week, 3 Submarine cable cuts affecting the Internet Traffic of Egypt!!!

At a very unexpected sequence, 2 Major cables (TE-North, EIG) Suffered from a Cut in the Mediterranean this week. which made the Egyptian telecom company TE move all the moving traffic from the suffering cables to SMW4 Cable Including SEACOM's traffic which is carried over TE-North cable across the Mediterranean to recover the traffic.

Yesterday Morning, Another strange cable cut happened to SeaMeWe4 cable 750 Meters away from the landing station. which affected all the previously recovered traffic from TE-North and EIG, besides the original traffic carried by SMW4.

So the Egyptian International Traffic including the internet access is suffering from slowness and bothering the end users along Egypt.

the Egyptian Marine forces has announced yesterday evening that they caught 3 Fishermen with Diving Suits in a small boat besides the Cut position. and they are under investigation now.

In parallel with the experts opinion that says that the Submarine cable in this near area of the landing station has a very strong Armour which is very difficult to be cut with initial tools like axes or so.

Besides that the cable in that near is carrying very high voltage to supply the chain of repeaters located along the cable length.

So Let's wait and see if the 3 Cut's are planned or Just by accident.

Yasser Elsokkary.