Cable fault disconnects West Africa
The SAT-3 Consortium is investigating the fault in its undersea cable which has left most of West Africa disconnected from the Internet.
As reported by the BBC, the break in the SAT-3 undersea cable - running from Portugal to South Africa via West Africa - has resulted in the loss of around 70 percent of the bandwidth available to West Africa, leaving many without any connection at all.
Ladi Okuneye, the chief marketing officer of West African Suburban Telecom, explained that the damaged cable was "the only fibre optic cable serving West Africa," meaning that "all West African countries have to use it."
The consortium behind the SAT-3 cable is due to dispatch a repair vessel to investigate the fault in the 15,0000km cable, but state that it could be two weeks before the ship is in place and repairs can begin.
The fault has resulted in many West African countries scrabbling to put agreements in place with their neighbours to reroute traffic, and several countries - including Togo and Niger - are still offline with no agreements in place.
It is not known what exactly has caused the damage in the Benin branch of the cable, but it's not unheard of for incautious ships to cause cables to move enough to crack.
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Discuss in the forums Replyhaha, no more mails from my lost brother umbeke with a spare 3 million in his back burner.
peace
fatman
HA HA HA!!! LMFAO! you can have some rep for that one
*ahem* I'm gonna go out on a limb and ask if that can be edited.
On a big negative note, this will probably affect all government offices across a substantial portion of a CONTINENT. Ouch.
Cant think of myself living without internet for a week or even more then 3 days. But i sure think they can reroute a lot of traffic through central/ north africa to europe.
Just good that I answered to that urgent mail about those 50 mil in time :D
Why it sould be edited? Did I write something bad? English is not my native language... And I was really talking about a monkey, I was not being racist. It was something to laugh at....
WELL SAID Monkey!!!!!! you can get them pretty cheap now days!
This can not be.........
I, I need to get that cheque for the Nigerian national lottery it only cost me £200 for the transfer of the £3 million pound cheque to be sent.
What should I do, HELP...!
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No you are the dumbass of the day. It does not need editing!
Its obvious he is talking about real monkeys (he says so), but only YOU saw it for something else... so does that make you the one of with the twisted mind ...
bindi edit: just because "that editing crap" will piss you off.
My apologies. Just "monkey up a tree playing WoW" seemed like it could be taken the wrong way. Chimps aren't the world's best-known MMORPG players. :)
Will
I can see it both ways - a translation error - but still, no reason to flame someone. How many Chimps or Apes use the internet? :P
Ook?
/Libraraian
Muahaha /enter Darwin-esq discussion about how Homo sapiens use the internet :P
:D