The Middle East unfortunately has limited Internet connectivity to the rest of the world, and that connectivity was slowed dramatically this weekend after the main SeaMeWe-4 cable suffered a "shunt fault" and came into contact with sea water somewhere in the Mediterranean.
The 20,000km SeaMeWe-4 cable provides much of the connectivity between Europe and Egypt, and its disruption made news from Egpyt to the Gulf states to Pakistan and beyond. Service still appears operational in the eastern segment of the cable, which runs all the way to Singapore. Apart from SeaMeWe-4 many states only have access to the much slower and older SeaMeWe-3 and FLAG Europe-Asia cables.
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