Here’s why you may have had internet problems todayIf you can read this article, then you are very lucky. Many in Africa and parts of Europe suffered intermittent internet downtime today owing to an outage of a subsea cable system. The global internet is powered by such vast undersea cables that have replaced costly satellites. “All linear transmission of traffic on the SEACOM Subsea Cable system on the East Coast of Africa, to and from Europe is affected,” the company said on its website. A cable cut in the Mediterranean in 2008 temporarily disrupted up to 70 per cent of internet traffic to Egypt and more than half to India.

Source: Standard Digital October 23, 2019 11:55 UTC