2008 Marine Cable Damage
On 30 January 2008 the Internet service in Egypt and the Middle East was affected by a breakage of the two marine cables FLAG & SMW4 connecting Egypt to the world.
TE Data users were not totally disconnected from the Internet, as the company had a third international gateway to the Internet, SMW3. However, they suffered from reduced bandwidth until the issue was resolved.
The local National Telecom Authority has issued a decision for all ISPs to offer a free of charge month to all clients as a compensation for the reduced quality of service during the outage.
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