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| Somalia hit by internet outage after fibre optic cables are cut by ship |
| 2017-06-30 |
| [AFRICANEWS] A major internet outage has hit Somalia with people in the capital Mogadishu not having access for five straight days as at Wednesday June 28, 2017. A Voice of America (VOA) journalist, Harun Maruf, said according to sources the cause of the outage was because undersea cables had been cut by a large ship. Among the worse affected are the media, businesses and government offices. A Somali news portal quoted a senior director of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Ahmed Haji Ali, as confirming the outage which he said started shortly on Monday after suspected commercial ship hit the fibre optic internet cable in the Indian Ocean. Reports indicate that many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country rely on the affected cable line resulting in internet and fixed voice service providers to go down. The journalist reported that engineers had been dispatched from Oman to repair the cables but did not state when connection will be restored. It is also said to have affected money transfer transactions especially coming during the end of Ramadan period. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Damned anchor draggers! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-06-30 13:06 |
| #1 Sounds like a good cut to me. One way to stop money transfers. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-06-30 12:17 |