Internet outages disrupt businesses across Mideast and Gulf

Posted on January 31st, 2008 at 5:13 pm to Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff

Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swath of the Middle East today after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean was damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.

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