The entire Middle East, plus India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have been affected by the cable break.

Cables are broken all the time, usually by fishing lines and ship anchors, but this time both the main route and the backup route got cut for a lot of companies.

There are other cables out of Egypt, but the two that got cut were the newest, and have the greatest capacity.

All cables between Europe to Asia go through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. No cable goes overland from Europe to Iran. Therefore Iran needs a system across Syria to the Mediterranean coast, but the USA and Israel will not allow Iran to patch into the cable network in the Mediterranean.

Nor is there a route that goes from Europe through Russia, Iran and Pakistan to India. The terrain is rugged, Pakistan is under a (U.S.-sponsored) dictatorship, and India and Pakistan are not on good terms. Therefore India must communicate with Europe through the Suez Canal.

Iran must communicate across the Pacific Ocean. This route is fairly cheap, since capacity is high, but the distance means more time required to reach Europe and get a response. Iran also communicates via overland cable that goes into Russia and follows the Trans-Siberian railroad. I was able to get onto some Iranian sites, but they’re very slow.

Egypt is a choke point. So is Taiwan, and the U.S. island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, which is the spider at the center of a web cables from the United States, Japan, Australia, the Philippines and China. Hawaii is another choke point, since cables that connect the USA to Australia and New Zealand run through Hawaii. (See map.)

The good news is that telecoms are building more and more lines.

Satellites only carry five percent of world traffic. Reason: fiber-optic cables are the cheapest way to carry communications over long distances. Undersea cables are easy to lay, and require little or no negotiation with landowners and governments.

... in as many days, and it appears Iran is the only country suffering a complete and persistent loss of connectivity. Time will tell whether the almost simultaneous severing of cables is an "accident" or the prelude to something vastly more serious.

Something big is coming and the ziostaniacs don't want witnesses.

A Third undersea cable reportedly cut between Sri Lanka and Suez follows one cut off Dubai.

Couple that with the U.S. spy satellite that went offline last week and while the new ziostaniac satellite just became operational and you have an effort to isolate that area.

Satellites only carry five percent of world traffic. Reason: fiber-optic cables are the cheapest way to carry communications over long distances.

Satellites also suffer from considerably latency problems, making fibre-optic cable not only more cost-effective to implement, but more efficient at carrying traffic.

I think the American military and their Zionist bosses are getting ready to do something they want hidden from the world. This is so the parasites in Washington can rest easy that their "Homeland" is safe from threats. Boycott Israel, and anyone that does business with them, or supports their cause. I have 729 foremost in my mind when I go shopping.

If someone were planning an implosion of world financial markets, taking out the internet in areas you wanted to isolate from placing trades would insure that those areas bore the brunt of the fall. First orders in gat the most out.

From CNN

High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.

Industry experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known what caused the damage.

Reports say that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain Pakistan and India, are all experiencing severe problems.

Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- whose traffic uses a different route -- and Lebanon and Iraq. Many Middle East governments have backup satellite systems in case of cable failure.

Ho hum...Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- whose traffic uses a different route.

This was no accident. Cable was cut three different times until Iran was completely off.

You can see the real-time status here:

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

Last one out is a rotten egg!

Thanks Mike for the link :)

..yah, t'is another scam! i wouldn't count on it just being a financial caust either!!!!