The tech giant gave no other details, but said internet traffic not moving through the region “is not impacted”.<\/p>\n
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This content is provided by X, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to X cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> NetBlocks, which monitors internet access, said “a series of subsea cable outages in the Red Sea<\/a> has degraded internet connectivity in multiple countries”, which it said included India<\/a> and Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n The firm blamed “failures affecting the SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Posts on X included graphics showing a sharp drop in connectivity on Saturday.<\/p>\n SMW4, the South East Asia\/Middle East\/Western Europe 4 cable is run by Tata Communications, part of the Indian conglomerate.<\/p>\n IMEWE, or the India\/Middle East\/Western Europe cable, is run by another consortium overseen by Alcatel Submarine Networks.<\/p>\n Neither firm has commented.<\/p>\n Pakistan Telecommunications, a major telecommunication firm, said cuts had taken place in a statement issued on Saturday.<\/p>\n Image: Saudi Arabia did not acknowledge the disruption and authorities did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n In the United Arab Emirates<\/a>, internet users on the country’s state-owned Du and Etisalat networks complained of slower internet speeds but the government did not acknowledge the disruption.<\/p>\n NetBlocks confirmed in a second post that the UAE had suffered “slow speeds and intermittent access as engineers work to resolve the issue impacting multiple countries”.<\/p>\n While the cause of the disruption has not been confirmed, there has been concern about Houthi rebels, based in neighbouring Yemen, targeting Red Sea cables.<\/p>\n The insurgent group is engaged in a campaign against Israel<\/a> to pressure it to end its war on Hamas<\/a> in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n In early 2024, Yemen’s government-in-exile alleged that the Houthis planned to attack undersea cables in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n Several were cut, but the Houthis denied being responsible.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Undersea cables, as well as satellite connections and land-based cables, are one of the backbones of the internet.<\/p>\n Service providers usually have multiple access points and reroute traffic if one fails, although it can slow access for users.<\/p>\n Read more on Sky News: Anchors dropped from ships and dragged along the sea floor can cut cables, which can also be targeted in attacks and repairs can take weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East was disrupted after undersea cables were cut, experts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-121149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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