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July 7, 2012 04:06 am GMT

Internet in Lebanon Back After Cable Ruptures, Knocks Nation Offline




Internet service in Lebanon is slowly and partially returning on Friday after damage to an underwater cable knocked the entire nation offline several times this week.

The cable, which lies about 30 miles off the Egyptian coast, broke on Wednesday. The cable is part of the India-Middle East-Western Europe system, an 8,100-foot-long fibre-optic link between eight countries in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.

The system went live in 2009, but Lebanon didn't join the network until the summer of 2011.

During the breaks between outages, Lebanon's telecommunications minister Nicolas Sehnaoui was periodically updating Lebanese citizens on the government's progress in restoring the nation'…
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