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30_3ecbplus.xml_49 | train | ent | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 1 | Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Cable | NON17042089870180423 | cable | ['cable', 'cut', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'area'] | <m> Cable </m> cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
<m> Cable </m> cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_3ecbplus.xml_56 | train | ent | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates . | 3 | 3 | 31 | 36 | cable | NON17042089870180423 | cable | ['undersea', 'telecommunications', 'cable', 'cut', 'tuesday', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'alexandria', 'governorate'] | An undersea telecommunications <m> cable </m> cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates . | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications <m> cable </m> cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_3ecbplus.xml_29 | train | ent | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates . | 5 | 6 | 41 | 51 | on Tuesday | TIM28607241157742528 | Tuesday | ['undersea', 'telecommunications', 'cable', 'cut', 'tuesday', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'alexandria', 'governorate'] | An undersea telecommunications cable cut <m> on Tuesday </m> partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates . | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications cable cut <m> on Tuesday </m> partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_3ecbplus.xml_64 | train | ent | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 1 | Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas | 8 | 10 | 54 | 67 | in some areas | LOC28606830296409807 | area | ['cable', 'cut', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'area'] | Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services <m> in some areas </m> | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services <m> in some areas </m>
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_3ecbplus.xml_50 | train | evt | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 1 | Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | cuts | ACT17042077747908144 | cut | ['cable', 'cut', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'area'] | Cable <m> cuts </m> partially block internet , mobile services in some areas | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
Cable <m> cuts </m> partially block internet , mobile services in some areas
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_3ecbplus.xml_53 | train | evt | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates . | 4 | 4 | 37 | 40 | cut | ACT17042077747908144 | cut | ['undersea', 'telecommunications', 'cable', 'cut', 'tuesday', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'alexandria', 'governorate'] | An undersea telecommunications cable <m> cut </m> on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates . | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications cable <m> cut </m> on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_3ecbplus.xml_7 | train | evt | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 1 | Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas | 3 | 3 | 21 | 26 | block | ACT17042122379497712 | block | ['cable', 'cut', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'area'] | Cable cuts partially <m> block </m> internet , mobile services in some areas | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
Cable cuts partially <m> block </m> internet , mobile services in some areas
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_3ecbplus.xml_8 | train | evt | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates . | 8 | 8 | 62 | 69 | blocked | ACT17042122379497712 | block | ['undersea', 'telecommunications', 'cable', 'cut', 'tuesday', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'alexandria', 'governorate'] | An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially <m> blocked </m> internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates . | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially <m> blocked </m> internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_3ecbplus.xml_65 | train | evt | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 1 | Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas | 7 | 7 | 45 | 53 | services | ACT17042102896406323 | service | ['cable', 'cut', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'area'] | Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile <m> services </m> in some areas | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile <m> services </m> in some areas
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_3ecbplus.xml_66 | train | evt | 30_3ecbplus.xml | 3 | An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile services in Alexandria and some other governorates . | 12 | 12 | 90 | 98 | services | ACT17042102896406323 | service | ['undersea', 'telecommunications', 'cable', 'cut', 'tuesday', 'partially', 'block', 'internet', 'mobile', 'service', 'alexandria', 'governorate'] | An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile <m> services </m> in Alexandria and some other governorates . | http : / / www . egyptindependent . com / news / cable - cuts - partially - block - internet - mobile - services - some - areas
Cable cuts partially block internet , mobile services in some areas
On Tue , 16 / 08 / 2011 - 13 : 42
An undersea telecommunications cable cut on Tuesday partially blocked internet and mobile <m> services </m> in Alexandria and some other governorates .
The cable cut happened around the same time that a different cable , owned by Telecom Egypt , was cut that also affected services , Egyptian authorities said .
Mahmoud al - Goweiny , a member of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's board of directors , told Al - Masry Al - Youm that this particular undersea cable has frequently malfunctioned since late 2007 .
Ahmed Osama , deputy executive director of Telecom Egypt , said the cable passes through Egypt from Europe and reaches Asia .
Osama said the cut's effect in Egypt was limited , and there haven't been clear reports about a cause .
"Some internet users suffered problems with internet and mobile services , Osama noted .
Osama attributed these problems to the Telecom Egypt cable cut , which affected Etisalat Egypt and LINKdotNET , two of Egypt's largest internet services providers .
No further details were reported about the effects of the cuts . |
30_13ecb.xml_8 | train | ent | 30_13ecb.xml | 1 | The cause - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged Friday . | 7 | 10 | 50 | 74 | in the Mediterranean Sea | LOC16978830859817981 | Mediterranean | ['cause', 'international', 'underwater', 'cable', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage', 'friday'] | The cause - three international underwater cables <m> in the Mediterranean Sea </m> that were damaged Friday . | As if the Middle East and South Asia do n't have enough problems with war , terrorism and poverty , now communications in many of the nations in those regions have been disrupted .
The cause - three international underwater cables <m> in the Mediterranean Sea </m> that were damaged Friday .
Millions of people trying to make phone calls or log on to the Internet wo n't be doing so for a while .
A similar problem happened nearly a year ago , but this one has the potential to be worse .
The damage this time broke all three of the cables connecting Europe with Asia via the Middle East .
Many carriers in the Middle East and South Asia will have to route their European traffic around the globe , instead of via a more direct route .
No word yet on an official cause of the damage .
Previous reasons for cable breaks include oil drilling and wayward anchors . |
30_13ecb.xml_6 | train | ent | 30_13ecb.xml | 1 | The cause - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged Friday . | 6 | 6 | 43 | 49 | cables | NON16979235248815535 | cable | ['cause', 'international', 'underwater', 'cable', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage', 'friday'] | The cause - three international underwater <m> cables </m> in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged Friday . | As if the Middle East and South Asia do n't have enough problems with war , terrorism and poverty , now communications in many of the nations in those regions have been disrupted .
The cause - three international underwater <m> cables </m> in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged Friday .
Millions of people trying to make phone calls or log on to the Internet wo n't be doing so for a while .
A similar problem happened nearly a year ago , but this one has the potential to be worse .
The damage this time broke all three of the cables connecting Europe with Asia via the Middle East .
Many carriers in the Middle East and South Asia will have to route their European traffic around the globe , instead of via a more direct route .
No word yet on an official cause of the damage .
Previous reasons for cable breaks include oil drilling and wayward anchors . |
30_13ecb.xml_11 | train | ent | 30_13ecb.xml | 1 | The cause - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged Friday . | 14 | 14 | 93 | 99 | Friday | TIM16979333607751084 | Friday | ['cause', 'international', 'underwater', 'cable', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage', 'friday'] | The cause - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged <m> Friday </m> . | As if the Middle East and South Asia do n't have enough problems with war , terrorism and poverty , now communications in many of the nations in those regions have been disrupted .
The cause - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged <m> Friday </m> .
Millions of people trying to make phone calls or log on to the Internet wo n't be doing so for a while .
A similar problem happened nearly a year ago , but this one has the potential to be worse .
The damage this time broke all three of the cables connecting Europe with Asia via the Middle East .
Many carriers in the Middle East and South Asia will have to route their European traffic around the globe , instead of via a more direct route .
No word yet on an official cause of the damage .
Previous reasons for cable breaks include oil drilling and wayward anchors . |
30_13ecb.xml_10 | train | evt | 30_13ecb.xml | 1 | The cause - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged Friday . | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | cause | 10000002856 | cause | ['cause', 'international', 'underwater', 'cable', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage', 'friday'] | The <m> cause </m> - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged Friday . | As if the Middle East and South Asia do n't have enough problems with war , terrorism and poverty , now communications in many of the nations in those regions have been disrupted .
The <m> cause </m> - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged Friday .
Millions of people trying to make phone calls or log on to the Internet wo n't be doing so for a while .
A similar problem happened nearly a year ago , but this one has the potential to be worse .
The damage this time broke all three of the cables connecting Europe with Asia via the Middle East .
Many carriers in the Middle East and South Asia will have to route their European traffic around the globe , instead of via a more direct route .
No word yet on an official cause of the damage .
Previous reasons for cable breaks include oil drilling and wayward anchors . |
30_13ecb.xml_7 | train | evt | 30_13ecb.xml | 1 | The cause - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were damaged Friday . | 13 | 13 | 85 | 92 | damaged | ACT16979225864150215 | damage | ['cause', 'international', 'underwater', 'cable', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'damage', 'friday'] | The cause - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were <m> damaged </m> Friday . | As if the Middle East and South Asia do n't have enough problems with war , terrorism and poverty , now communications in many of the nations in those regions have been disrupted .
The cause - three international underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were <m> damaged </m> Friday .
Millions of people trying to make phone calls or log on to the Internet wo n't be doing so for a while .
A similar problem happened nearly a year ago , but this one has the potential to be worse .
The damage this time broke all three of the cables connecting Europe with Asia via the Middle East .
Many carriers in the Middle East and South Asia will have to route their European traffic around the globe , instead of via a more direct route .
No word yet on an official cause of the damage .
Previous reasons for cable breaks include oil drilling and wayward anchors . |
30_2ecb.xml_93 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 0 | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | 26 | 27 | 159 | 173 | France Telecom | HUM16978802686536281 | Telecom | ['internet', 'telephone', 'traffic', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'hamper', 'friday', 'major', 'underwater', 'datum', 'line', 'cut', 'accord', 'france', 'telecom'] | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to <m> France Telecom </m> . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to <m> France Telecom </m> .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_94 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 30 | 31 | 166 | 192 | telecommunications company | HUM16978802686536281 | telecommunication | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the <m> telecommunications company </m> said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the <m> telecommunications company </m> said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_95 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 3 | France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | France Telecom | HUM16978802686536281 | Telecom | ['france', 'telecom', 'sure', 'cause', 'cut', 'she', 'say'] | <m> France Telecom </m> is n't sure what caused the cut , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
<m> France Telecom </m> is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_96 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 40 | 41 | 187 | 201 | France Telecom | HUM16978802686536281 | Telecom | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a <m> France Telecom </m> spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a <m> France Telecom </m> spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_161 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 12 | Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | 19 | 20 | 112 | 126 | Arbor Networks | 10000002857 | Networks | ['internet', 'traffic', 'hit', 'incident', 'accord', 'danny', 'mcpherson', 'chief', 'security', 'officer', 'arbor', 'networks'] | Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with <m> Arbor Networks </m> . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with <m> Arbor Networks </m> .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_98 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 3 | France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said . | 10 | 10 | 49 | 52 | she | 75 | she | ['france', 'telecom', 'sure', 'cause', 'cut', 'she', 'say'] | France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , <m> she </m> said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , <m> she </m> said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_143 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 39 | 39 | 175 | 178 | she | 75 | she | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , <m> she </m> said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , <m> she </m> said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_160 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 12 | Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | 12 | 13 | 66 | 81 | Danny McPherson | 10000002858 | McPherson | ['internet', 'traffic', 'hit', 'incident', 'accord', 'danny', 'mcpherson', 'chief', 'security', 'officer', 'arbor', 'networks'] | Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to <m> Danny McPherson </m> , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to <m> Danny McPherson </m> , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_97 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 42 | 42 | 202 | 213 | spokeswoman | 75 | spokeswoman | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom <m> spokeswoman </m> who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom <m> spokeswoman </m> who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_141 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 1 | 2 | 2 | 18 | maintenance boat | 10000002859 | maintenance | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A <m> maintenance boat </m> is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A <m> maintenance boat </m> is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_142 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 14 | 14 | 60 | 62 | it | 10000002860 | it | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but <m> it </m> will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but <m> it </m> will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_132 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 8 | `` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . '' | 8 | 10 | 32 | 43 | in the area | LOC16978830859817981 | area | ['``', 'simply', 'ship', 'area', 'cut', 'cable'] | `` Or it could be simply a ship <m> in the area </m> which has cut the cable . '' | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship <m> in the area </m> which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_101 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 23 | 23 | 132 | 138 | Sicily | 10000002861 | Sicily | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect <m> Sicily </m> to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect <m> Sicily </m> to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_133 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 17 | 20 | 94 | 118 | in the Mediterranean sea | LOC16978830859817981 | Mediterranean | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines <m> in the Mediterranean sea </m> that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines <m> in the Mediterranean sea </m> that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_134 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 6 | 8 | 31 | 42 | to the site | LOC16978830859817981 | site | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route <m> to the site </m> of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route <m> to the site </m> of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_135 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 18 | 18 | 76 | 81 | there | LOC16978830859817981 | there | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get <m> there </m> until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get <m> there </m> until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_108 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 24 | 27 | 139 | 159 | to Tunisia and Egypt | 10000002862 | Tunisia | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily <m> to Tunisia and Egypt </m> , the telecommunications company said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily <m> to Tunisia and Egypt </m> , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_111 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 18 | 22 | 71 | 109 | countries between Singapore and France | 10000002863 | country | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect <m> countries between Singapore and France </m> as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect <m> countries between Singapore and France </m> as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_145 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | Many countries | 84 | country | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | <m> Many countries </m> were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
<m> Many countries </m> were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_146 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 19 | 19 | 105 | 108 | all | 84 | all | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which <m> all </m> lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which <m> all </m> lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_147 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 9 | 9 | 55 | 60 | India | 10000002864 | India | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the outage , including <m> India </m> , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including <m> India </m> , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_148 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 11 | 12 | 63 | 75 | Saudi Arabia | 10000002865 | Arabia | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , <m> Saudi Arabia </m> , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , <m> Saudi Arabia </m> , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_149 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 14 | 14 | 78 | 83 | Egypt | 10000002866 | Egypt | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , <m> Egypt </m> and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , <m> Egypt </m> and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_150 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 28 | 29 | 162 | 171 | to Europe | 10000002867 | Europe | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic <m> to Europe </m> . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic <m> to Europe </m> .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_90 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 36 | 37 | 174 | 182 | to Japan | 10000002868 | Japan | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. <m> to Japan </m> , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. <m> to Japan </m> , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_91 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 0 | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | 4 | 11 | 31 | 74 | between Europe and the Middle East and Asia | LOC17760060487295911 | between | ['internet', 'telephone', 'traffic', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'hamper', 'friday', 'major', 'underwater', 'datum', 'line', 'cut', 'accord', 'france', 'telecom'] | Internet and telephone traffic <m> between Europe and the Middle East and Asia </m> was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | Internet and telephone traffic <m> between Europe and the Middle East and Asia </m> was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_155 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 16 | 16 | 88 | 96 | Malaysia | 10000002869 | Malaysia | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and <m> Malaysia </m> , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and <m> Malaysia </m> , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_125 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 33 | 35 | 160 | 173 | from the U.K. | 10000002870 | from | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches <m> from the U.K. </m> to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches <m> from the U.K. </m> to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_102 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 4 | 4 | 20 | 25 | lines | NON16979235248815535 | line | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut occurred on <m> lines </m> between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on <m> lines </m> between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_103 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 0 | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | 19 | 20 | 124 | 134 | data lines | NON16979235248815535 | line | ['internet', 'telephone', 'traffic', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'hamper', 'friday', 'major', 'underwater', 'datum', 'line', 'cut', 'accord', 'france', 'telecom'] | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater <m> data lines </m> were cut , according to France Telecom . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater <m> data lines </m> were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_104 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 16 | 16 | 88 | 93 | lines | NON16979235248815535 | line | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on <m> lines </m> in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on <m> lines </m> in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_105 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 14 | 14 | 49 | 54 | lines | NON16979235248815535 | line | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 <m> lines </m> , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 <m> lines </m> , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_106 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 8 | `` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . '' | 15 | 15 | 62 | 67 | cable | NON16979235248815535 | cable | ['``', 'simply', 'ship', 'area', 'cut', 'cable'] | `` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the <m> cable </m> . '' | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the <m> cable </m> . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_119 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 27 | 29 | 125 | 141 | Flag cable route | 10000002871 | cable | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the <m> Flag cable route </m> , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the <m> Flag cable route </m> , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_121 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 10 | 13 | 37 | 48 | Sea Me We 3 | 10000002872 | sea | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and <m> Sea Me We 3 </m> lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and <m> Sea Me We 3 </m> lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_122 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 5 | 8 | 21 | 32 | Sea Me We 4 | 10000002873 | Sea | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the <m> Sea Me We 4 </m> and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the <m> Sea Me We 4 </m> and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_166 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 3 | France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said . | 5 | 5 | 27 | 31 | what | 10000002874 | what | ['france', 'telecom', 'sure', 'cause', 'cut', 'she', 'say'] | France Telecom is n't sure <m> what </m> caused the cut , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure <m> what </m> caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_140 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 20 | 20 | 88 | 94 | Monday | 10000002875 | Monday | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until <m> Monday </m> , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until <m> Monday </m> , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_137 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 29 | 30 | 125 | 134 | two weeks | 10000002876 | week | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as <m> two weeks </m> for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as <m> two weeks </m> for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_107 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 5 | 13 | 26 | 82 | between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC | TIM16979333607751084 | Coordinated | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut occurred on lines <m> between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC </m> ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines <m> between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC </m> ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_168 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 0 | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | 14 | 14 | 88 | 94 | Friday | TIM16979333607751084 | Friday | ['internet', 'telephone', 'traffic', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'hamper', 'friday', 'major', 'underwater', 'datum', 'line', 'cut', 'accord', 'france', 'telecom'] | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered <m> Friday </m> after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered <m> Friday </m> after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_169 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 12 | Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | Internet | NON26535665966419718 | internet | ['internet', 'traffic', 'hit', 'incident', 'accord', 'danny', 'mcpherson', 'chief', 'security', 'officer', 'arbor', 'networks'] | <m> Internet </m> traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
<m> Internet </m> traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_171 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 0 | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | 2 | 2 | 13 | 22 | telephone | NON26535628504190194 | telephone | ['internet', 'telephone', 'traffic', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'hamper', 'friday', 'major', 'underwater', 'datum', 'line', 'cut', 'accord', 'france', 'telecom'] | Internet and <m> telephone </m> traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | Internet and <m> telephone </m> traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_172 | train | ent | 30_2ecb.xml | 0 | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | Internet | NON26535665966419718 | internet | ['internet', 'telephone', 'traffic', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'hamper', 'friday', 'major', 'underwater', 'datum', 'line', 'cut', 'accord', 'france', 'telecom'] | <m> Internet </m> and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | <m> Internet </m> and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_130 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 3 | France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said . | 6 | 6 | 32 | 38 | caused | 10000002877 | cause | ['france', 'telecom', 'sure', 'cause', 'cut', 'she', 'say'] | France Telecom is n't sure what <m> caused </m> the cut , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what <m> caused </m> the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_131 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 8 | `` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . '' | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | it | 10000002878 | it | ['``', 'simply', 'ship', 'area', 'cut', 'cable'] | `` Or <m> it </m> could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . '' | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or <m> it </m> could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_162 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 0 | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | 3 | 3 | 23 | 30 | traffic | ACT16979267820424588 | traffic | ['internet', 'telephone', 'traffic', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'hamper', 'friday', 'major', 'underwater', 'datum', 'line', 'cut', 'accord', 'france', 'telecom'] | Internet and telephone <m> traffic </m> between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | Internet and telephone <m> traffic </m> between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_99 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 2 | 2 | 8 | 16 | occurred | 10000002879 | occur | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut <m> occurred </m> on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut <m> occurred </m> on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_163 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 4 | 5 | 22 | 30 | en route | 10000002880 | route | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is <m> en route </m> to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is <m> en route </m> to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_138 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 35 | 35 | 156 | 162 | return | 10000002881 | return | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to <m> return </m> to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to <m> return </m> to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_109 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 22 | 22 | 124 | 131 | connect | 10000002882 | connect | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that <m> connect </m> Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that <m> connect </m> Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_110 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 17 | 17 | 63 | 70 | connect | 10000002883 | connect | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which <m> connect </m> countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which <m> connect </m> countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_112 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | cut | ACT16979225864150215 | cut | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The <m> cut </m> occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The <m> cut </m> occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_144 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 17 | 17 | 72 | 75 | get | 10000002884 | get | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not <m> get </m> there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not <m> get </m> there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_113 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 0 | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | 22 | 22 | 140 | 143 | cut | ACT16979225864150215 | cut | ['internet', 'telephone', 'traffic', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'hamper', 'friday', 'major', 'underwater', 'datum', 'line', 'cut', 'accord', 'france', 'telecom'] | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were <m> cut </m> , according to France Telecom . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were <m> cut </m> , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_114 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | cuts | ACT16979225864150215 | cut | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The <m> cuts </m> were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The <m> cuts </m> were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_115 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 3 | France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said . | 8 | 8 | 43 | 46 | cut | ACT16979225864150215 | cut | ['france', 'telecom', 'sure', 'cause', 'cut', 'she', 'say'] | France Telecom is n't sure what caused the <m> cut </m> , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the <m> cut </m> , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_116 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 8 | `` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . '' | 13 | 13 | 54 | 57 | cut | ACT16979225864150215 | cut | ['``', 'simply', 'ship', 'area', 'cut', 'cable'] | `` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has <m> cut </m> the cable . '' | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has <m> cut </m> the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_117 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 12 | Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | 8 | 8 | 42 | 50 | incident | ACT16979225864150215 | incident | ['internet', 'traffic', 'hit', 'incident', 'accord', 'danny', 'mcpherson', 'chief', 'security', 'officer', 'arbor', 'networks'] | Internet traffic also has been hit by the <m> incident </m> , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the <m> incident </m> , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_118 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 11 | 11 | 50 | 53 | cut | ACT16979225864150215 | cut | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the <m> cut </m> , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the <m> cut </m> , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_151 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 20 | 20 | 109 | 113 | lost | ACT16979318564046465 | lose | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all <m> lost </m> a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all <m> lost </m> a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_120 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 32 | 32 | 150 | 159 | stretches | 10000002885 | stretch | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which <m> stretches </m> from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which <m> stretches </m> from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_152 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 6 | 6 | 36 | 42 | outage | ACT16979318564046465 | outage | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the <m> outage </m> , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the <m> outage </m> , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_153 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 27 | 27 | 154 | 161 | traffic | 10000002886 | traffic | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice <m> traffic </m> to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice <m> traffic </m> to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_156 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 25 | 25 | 109 | 113 | take | 10000002887 | take | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will <m> take </m> as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will <m> take </m> as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_157 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 3 | 3 | 20 | 28 | affected | ACT16979307596980472 | affect | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were <m> affected </m> by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were <m> affected </m> by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_158 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 0 | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | 13 | 13 | 79 | 87 | hampered | ACT16979307596980472 | hamper | ['internet', 'telephone', 'traffic', 'europe', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'hamper', 'friday', 'major', 'underwater', 'datum', 'line', 'cut', 'accord', 'france', 'telecom'] | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was <m> hampered </m> Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was <m> hampered </m> Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_159 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 12 | Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | 5 | 5 | 31 | 34 | hit | ACT16979307596980472 | hit | ['internet', 'traffic', 'hit', 'incident', 'accord', 'danny', 'mcpherson', 'chief', 'security', 'officer', 'arbor', 'networks'] | Internet traffic also has been <m> hit </m> by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been <m> hit </m> by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_100 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 1 | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said . | 32 | 32 | 193 | 197 | said | 10000002888 | say | ['cut', 'occur', 'line', '07:28', '08:06', 'coordinated', 'universal', 'time', 'utc', 'line', 'mediterranean', 'sea', 'connect', 'sicily', 'tunisia', 'egypt', 'telecommunication', 'company', 'say'] | The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company <m> said </m> . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company <m> said </m> .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_139 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 40 | 40 | 179 | 183 | said | 10000002889 | say | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she <m> said </m> . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she <m> said </m> .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_123 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 44 | 44 | 218 | 223 | asked | 10000002890 | ask | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who <m> asked </m> not to be named said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who <m> asked </m> not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_124 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 49 | 49 | 240 | 244 | said | 10000002891 | say | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named <m> said </m> . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named <m> said </m> .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_129 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 3 | France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said . | 11 | 11 | 53 | 57 | said | 10000002892 | say | ['france', 'telecom', 'sure', 'cause', 'cut', 'she', 'say'] | France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she <m> said </m> . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she <m> said </m> .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_164 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 37 | 37 | 166 | 172 | normal | 10000002893 | normal | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to <m> normal </m> , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to <m> normal </m> , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_136 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 9 | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said . | 33 | 33 | 143 | 152 | situation | 10000002894 | situation | ['maintenance', 'boat', 'en', 'route', 'site', 'cut', 'monday', 'week', 'situation', 'return', 'normal', 'she', 'say'] | A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the <m> situation </m> to return to normal , she said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the <m> situation </m> to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_154 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 10 | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe . | 22 | 23 | 116 | 138 | significant percentage | 10000002895 | significant | ['country', 'affect', 'outage', 'include', 'india', 'saudi', 'arabia', 'egypt', 'malaysia', 'lose', 'significant', 'percentage', 'voice', 'traffic', 'europe'] | Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a <m> significant percentage </m> on their voice traffic to Europe . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a <m> significant percentage </m> on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_126 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 2 | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said . | 48 | 48 | 234 | 239 | named | 10000002896 | name | ['cut', 'sea', '4', 'sea', '3', 'line', 'connect', 'country', 'singapore', 'france', 'flag', 'cable', 'route', 'stretch', 'u.k.', 'japan', 'france', 'telecom', 'spokeswoman', 'ask', 'name', 'say'] | The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be <m> named </m> said . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be <m> named </m> said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_2ecb.xml_170 | train | evt | 30_2ecb.xml | 12 | Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | 1 | 1 | 9 | 16 | traffic | ACT16979267820424588 | traffic | ['internet', 'traffic', 'hit', 'incident', 'accord', 'danny', 'mcpherson', 'chief', 'security', 'officer', 'arbor', 'networks'] | Internet <m> traffic </m> also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks . | Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut , according to France Telecom .
The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and Egypt , the telecommunications company said .
The cuts were to the Sea Me We 4 and Sea Me We 3 lines , which connect countries between Singapore and France as well as the Flag cable route , which stretches from the U.K. to Japan , a France Telecom spokeswoman who asked not to be named said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
France Telecom is n't sure what caused the cut , she said .
`` We have two assumptions .
The first is that it could be an underwater earthquake , '' she said .
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
`` Or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable . ''
A maintenance boat is en route to the site of the cut , but it will not get there until Monday , and it will take as many as two weeks for the situation to return to normal , she said .
Many countries were affected by the outage , including India , Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Malaysia , which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe .
For example , 82 percent of India 's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday , although that situation has now improved , the spokeswoman said .
Internet <m> traffic </m> also has been hit by the incident , according to Danny McPherson , chief security officer with Arbor Networks .
His company 's sensors reported that between 3,000 and 5,000 Internet routes in the region were off-line early Friday morning .
These routes are the Internet 's equivalent of dialing prefixes , meaning that computers that used them would be completely unreachable until service was restored .
`` It 's significant that it was lost , '' he said
`` For them it was in the middle of a business day on Friday . ''
A large number of these came back on-line around 17:00 UTC , McPherson said .
Most likely this happened after ISPs ( Internet service providers ) that had been knocked off-line had found alternate routes for their traffic .
It 's hard to estimate how many Internet users were affected by the cut , but the Internet has a total of close to 300,000 such routes , he said .
This is not the first time this year that these cables have been cut .
Earlier this year both the Sea Me We 4 and Flag cables were cut .
Flag 's cable was reportedly cut by ships anchored off the coast of Alexandria , Egypt . |
30_10ecb.xml_57 | train | ent | 30_10ecb.xml | 5 | Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption . | 3 | 4 | 22 | 31 | The Times | 10000002897 | Times | ['industry', 'expert', 'tell', 'times', 'sub-sea', 'cable', 'go', 'alexandra', 'cause', 'mass', 'disruption'] | Industry experts told <m> The Times </m> that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption . | India suffers massive internet disruption after undersea cables break
Millions of people across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage .
Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut .
Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) throughout the region , including those in United Arab Emirates , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , also reported problems .
International telephone calls , which have also been affected , are being rerouted to work around the problem .
Industry experts told <m> The Times </m> that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption .
`` It is incredibly rare to experience a dual-break where both cables are down simultaneously , '' said a spokesperson for Interoute , the internet networks company .
The Egyptian ministry said it will take `` several days '' for cables to be repaired and is trying to reroute Egypt 's internet connections .
Indian ISPs said their problems were due to the cable damage off Egypt .
Speaking to reporters , Rajesh Chharia , president of the Internet Service Providers ' Association of India , said : `` Information technology companies , software companies and call centres that provide online services to the UK or the US east coast are the worst affected . ''
Rafaat Hindy , from the Egyptian ministry , said : `` Despite this being an international cable affecting many Gulf and Arab countries , we are closest to it and so we have a lot of responsibility .
`` We are working as fast as we can . ''
It is thought that up to 70 per cent of web services in Egypt , and 60 per cent in India , were disrupted yesterday .
There were reports that phone and internet difficults had spread to Yemen , Sudan , Bangladesh and Sri Lanka .
The shut down will take several days to fix , and could have a major impact on the region and across the world .
It is likely to hit businesses who will struggle to communicate in the affected countires .
Call-centres who work for British companies are likely to be offline or hard to contact in the coming days .
Others warned that bank and stock market trading could be affected .
The digital blackout highlighted the vulnerability of global communications .
Hundreds of millions of people access the web , but the vast majority of international traffic runs through a a small amount of cables submerged below the sea .
Industry insiders warned that a domino effect was occuring today , causing the disruption to spread across the globe .
As companies ' private internet services went down , workers were forced to use the public internet and mobile phones to communicate .
This has resulted in a heavy strain on phone and internet networks , meaning calls could go down and cause the internet to become slower or blackout completely . |
30_10ecb.xml_58 | train | ent | 30_10ecb.xml | 5 | Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption . | 1 | 1 | 9 | 16 | experts | 10000002898 | expert | ['industry', 'expert', 'tell', 'times', 'sub-sea', 'cable', 'go', 'alexandra', 'cause', 'mass', 'disruption'] | Industry <m> experts </m> told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption . | India suffers massive internet disruption after undersea cables break
Millions of people across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage .
Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut .
Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) throughout the region , including those in United Arab Emirates , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , also reported problems .
International telephone calls , which have also been affected , are being rerouted to work around the problem .
Industry <m> experts </m> told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption .
`` It is incredibly rare to experience a dual-break where both cables are down simultaneously , '' said a spokesperson for Interoute , the internet networks company .
The Egyptian ministry said it will take `` several days '' for cables to be repaired and is trying to reroute Egypt 's internet connections .
Indian ISPs said their problems were due to the cable damage off Egypt .
Speaking to reporters , Rajesh Chharia , president of the Internet Service Providers ' Association of India , said : `` Information technology companies , software companies and call centres that provide online services to the UK or the US east coast are the worst affected . ''
Rafaat Hindy , from the Egyptian ministry , said : `` Despite this being an international cable affecting many Gulf and Arab countries , we are closest to it and so we have a lot of responsibility .
`` We are working as fast as we can . ''
It is thought that up to 70 per cent of web services in Egypt , and 60 per cent in India , were disrupted yesterday .
There were reports that phone and internet difficults had spread to Yemen , Sudan , Bangladesh and Sri Lanka .
The shut down will take several days to fix , and could have a major impact on the region and across the world .
It is likely to hit businesses who will struggle to communicate in the affected countires .
Call-centres who work for British companies are likely to be offline or hard to contact in the coming days .
Others warned that bank and stock market trading could be affected .
The digital blackout highlighted the vulnerability of global communications .
Hundreds of millions of people access the web , but the vast majority of international traffic runs through a a small amount of cables submerged below the sea .
Industry insiders warned that a domino effect was occuring today , causing the disruption to spread across the globe .
As companies ' private internet services went down , workers were forced to use the public internet and mobile phones to communicate .
This has resulted in a heavy strain on phone and internet networks , meaning calls could go down and cause the internet to become slower or blackout completely . |
30_10ecb.xml_68 | train | ent | 30_10ecb.xml | 2 | Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut . | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 | numbers | 10000002899 | number | ['huge', 'number', 'egypt', 'india', 'leave', 'struggle', 'online', 'result', 'outage', 'major', 'internet', 'pipeline', 'egypt', 'italy', 'cut'] | Huge <m> numbers </m> in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut . | India suffers massive internet disruption after undersea cables break
Millions of people across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage .
Huge <m> numbers </m> in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut .
Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) throughout the region , including those in United Arab Emirates , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , also reported problems .
International telephone calls , which have also been affected , are being rerouted to work around the problem .
Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption .
`` It is incredibly rare to experience a dual-break where both cables are down simultaneously , '' said a spokesperson for Interoute , the internet networks company .
The Egyptian ministry said it will take `` several days '' for cables to be repaired and is trying to reroute Egypt 's internet connections .
Indian ISPs said their problems were due to the cable damage off Egypt .
Speaking to reporters , Rajesh Chharia , president of the Internet Service Providers ' Association of India , said : `` Information technology companies , software companies and call centres that provide online services to the UK or the US east coast are the worst affected . ''
Rafaat Hindy , from the Egyptian ministry , said : `` Despite this being an international cable affecting many Gulf and Arab countries , we are closest to it and so we have a lot of responsibility .
`` We are working as fast as we can . ''
It is thought that up to 70 per cent of web services in Egypt , and 60 per cent in India , were disrupted yesterday .
There were reports that phone and internet difficults had spread to Yemen , Sudan , Bangladesh and Sri Lanka .
The shut down will take several days to fix , and could have a major impact on the region and across the world .
It is likely to hit businesses who will struggle to communicate in the affected countires .
Call-centres who work for British companies are likely to be offline or hard to contact in the coming days .
Others warned that bank and stock market trading could be affected .
The digital blackout highlighted the vulnerability of global communications .
Hundreds of millions of people access the web , but the vast majority of international traffic runs through a a small amount of cables submerged below the sea .
Industry insiders warned that a domino effect was occuring today , causing the disruption to spread across the globe .
As companies ' private internet services went down , workers were forced to use the public internet and mobile phones to communicate .
This has resulted in a heavy strain on phone and internet networks , meaning calls could go down and cause the internet to become slower or blackout completely . |
30_10ecb.xml_75 | train | ent | 30_10ecb.xml | 1 | Millions of people across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage . | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 | Millions of people | 10000002900 | million | ['million', 'people', 'middle', 'east', 'asia', 'lose', 'access', 'internet', 'undersea', 'cable', 'mediterranean', 'suffer', 'severe', 'damage'] | <m> Millions of people </m> across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage . | India suffers massive internet disruption after undersea cables break
<m> Millions of people </m> across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage .
Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut .
Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) throughout the region , including those in United Arab Emirates , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , also reported problems .
International telephone calls , which have also been affected , are being rerouted to work around the problem .
Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption .
`` It is incredibly rare to experience a dual-break where both cables are down simultaneously , '' said a spokesperson for Interoute , the internet networks company .
The Egyptian ministry said it will take `` several days '' for cables to be repaired and is trying to reroute Egypt 's internet connections .
Indian ISPs said their problems were due to the cable damage off Egypt .
Speaking to reporters , Rajesh Chharia , president of the Internet Service Providers ' Association of India , said : `` Information technology companies , software companies and call centres that provide online services to the UK or the US east coast are the worst affected . ''
Rafaat Hindy , from the Egyptian ministry , said : `` Despite this being an international cable affecting many Gulf and Arab countries , we are closest to it and so we have a lot of responsibility .
`` We are working as fast as we can . ''
It is thought that up to 70 per cent of web services in Egypt , and 60 per cent in India , were disrupted yesterday .
There were reports that phone and internet difficults had spread to Yemen , Sudan , Bangladesh and Sri Lanka .
The shut down will take several days to fix , and could have a major impact on the region and across the world .
It is likely to hit businesses who will struggle to communicate in the affected countires .
Call-centres who work for British companies are likely to be offline or hard to contact in the coming days .
Others warned that bank and stock market trading could be affected .
The digital blackout highlighted the vulnerability of global communications .
Hundreds of millions of people access the web , but the vast majority of international traffic runs through a a small amount of cables submerged below the sea .
Industry insiders warned that a domino effect was occuring today , causing the disruption to spread across the globe .
As companies ' private internet services went down , workers were forced to use the public internet and mobile phones to communicate .
This has resulted in a heavy strain on phone and internet networks , meaning calls could go down and cause the internet to become slower or blackout completely . |
30_10ecb.xml_54 | train | ent | 30_10ecb.xml | 5 | Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption . | 11 | 13 | 66 | 84 | just off Alexandra | 10000002901 | Alexandra | ['industry', 'expert', 'tell', 'times', 'sub-sea', 'cable', 'go', 'alexandra', 'cause', 'mass', 'disruption'] | Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down <m> just off Alexandra </m> , causing the mass disruption . | India suffers massive internet disruption after undersea cables break
Millions of people across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage .
Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut .
Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) throughout the region , including those in United Arab Emirates , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , also reported problems .
International telephone calls , which have also been affected , are being rerouted to work around the problem .
Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down <m> just off Alexandra </m> , causing the mass disruption .
`` It is incredibly rare to experience a dual-break where both cables are down simultaneously , '' said a spokesperson for Interoute , the internet networks company .
The Egyptian ministry said it will take `` several days '' for cables to be repaired and is trying to reroute Egypt 's internet connections .
Indian ISPs said their problems were due to the cable damage off Egypt .
Speaking to reporters , Rajesh Chharia , president of the Internet Service Providers ' Association of India , said : `` Information technology companies , software companies and call centres that provide online services to the UK or the US east coast are the worst affected . ''
Rafaat Hindy , from the Egyptian ministry , said : `` Despite this being an international cable affecting many Gulf and Arab countries , we are closest to it and so we have a lot of responsibility .
`` We are working as fast as we can . ''
It is thought that up to 70 per cent of web services in Egypt , and 60 per cent in India , were disrupted yesterday .
There were reports that phone and internet difficults had spread to Yemen , Sudan , Bangladesh and Sri Lanka .
The shut down will take several days to fix , and could have a major impact on the region and across the world .
It is likely to hit businesses who will struggle to communicate in the affected countires .
Call-centres who work for British companies are likely to be offline or hard to contact in the coming days .
Others warned that bank and stock market trading could be affected .
The digital blackout highlighted the vulnerability of global communications .
Hundreds of millions of people access the web , but the vast majority of international traffic runs through a a small amount of cables submerged below the sea .
Industry insiders warned that a domino effect was occuring today , causing the disruption to spread across the globe .
As companies ' private internet services went down , workers were forced to use the public internet and mobile phones to communicate .
This has resulted in a heavy strain on phone and internet networks , meaning calls could go down and cause the internet to become slower or blackout completely . |
30_10ecb.xml_62 | train | ent | 30_10ecb.xml | 2 | Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut . | 24 | 27 | 128 | 151 | between Egypt and Italy | LOC17759847039132105 | between | ['huge', 'number', 'egypt', 'india', 'leave', 'struggle', 'online', 'result', 'outage', 'major', 'internet', 'pipeline', 'egypt', 'italy', 'cut'] | Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline <m> between Egypt and Italy </m> was cut . | India suffers massive internet disruption after undersea cables break
Millions of people across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage .
Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline <m> between Egypt and Italy </m> was cut .
Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) throughout the region , including those in United Arab Emirates , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , also reported problems .
International telephone calls , which have also been affected , are being rerouted to work around the problem .
Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption .
`` It is incredibly rare to experience a dual-break where both cables are down simultaneously , '' said a spokesperson for Interoute , the internet networks company .
The Egyptian ministry said it will take `` several days '' for cables to be repaired and is trying to reroute Egypt 's internet connections .
Indian ISPs said their problems were due to the cable damage off Egypt .
Speaking to reporters , Rajesh Chharia , president of the Internet Service Providers ' Association of India , said : `` Information technology companies , software companies and call centres that provide online services to the UK or the US east coast are the worst affected . ''
Rafaat Hindy , from the Egyptian ministry , said : `` Despite this being an international cable affecting many Gulf and Arab countries , we are closest to it and so we have a lot of responsibility .
`` We are working as fast as we can . ''
It is thought that up to 70 per cent of web services in Egypt , and 60 per cent in India , were disrupted yesterday .
There were reports that phone and internet difficults had spread to Yemen , Sudan , Bangladesh and Sri Lanka .
The shut down will take several days to fix , and could have a major impact on the region and across the world .
It is likely to hit businesses who will struggle to communicate in the affected countires .
Call-centres who work for British companies are likely to be offline or hard to contact in the coming days .
Others warned that bank and stock market trading could be affected .
The digital blackout highlighted the vulnerability of global communications .
Hundreds of millions of people access the web , but the vast majority of international traffic runs through a a small amount of cables submerged below the sea .
Industry insiders warned that a domino effect was occuring today , causing the disruption to spread across the globe .
As companies ' private internet services went down , workers were forced to use the public internet and mobile phones to communicate .
This has resulted in a heavy strain on phone and internet networks , meaning calls could go down and cause the internet to become slower or blackout completely . |
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Millions of people across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables <m> in the Mediterranean </m> suffered severe damage .
Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage , when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut .
Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) throughout the region , including those in United Arab Emirates , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , also reported problems .
International telephone calls , which have also been affected , are being rerouted to work around the problem .
Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra , causing the mass disruption .
`` It is incredibly rare to experience a dual-break where both cables are down simultaneously , '' said a spokesperson for Interoute , the internet networks company .
The Egyptian ministry said it will take `` several days '' for cables to be repaired and is trying to reroute Egypt 's internet connections .
Indian ISPs said their problems were due to the cable damage off Egypt .
Speaking to reporters , Rajesh Chharia , president of the Internet Service Providers ' Association of India , said : `` Information technology companies , software companies and call centres that provide online services to the UK or the US east coast are the worst affected . ''
Rafaat Hindy , from the Egyptian ministry , said : `` Despite this being an international cable affecting many Gulf and Arab countries , we are closest to it and so we have a lot of responsibility .
`` We are working as fast as we can . ''
It is thought that up to 70 per cent of web services in Egypt , and 60 per cent in India , were disrupted yesterday .
There were reports that phone and internet difficults had spread to Yemen , Sudan , Bangladesh and Sri Lanka .
The shut down will take several days to fix , and could have a major impact on the region and across the world .
It is likely to hit businesses who will struggle to communicate in the affected countires .
Call-centres who work for British companies are likely to be offline or hard to contact in the coming days .
Others warned that bank and stock market trading could be affected .
The digital blackout highlighted the vulnerability of global communications .
Hundreds of millions of people access the web , but the vast majority of international traffic runs through a a small amount of cables submerged below the sea .
Industry insiders warned that a domino effect was occuring today , causing the disruption to spread across the globe .
As companies ' private internet services went down , workers were forced to use the public internet and mobile phones to communicate .
This has resulted in a heavy strain on phone and internet networks , meaning calls could go down and cause the internet to become slower or blackout completely . |
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