A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday.
India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage.
"There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt which has impacted internet connectivity in India," Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), an internet service provider, said in a statement.
VSNL said its service had been "largely restored" by diverting to another cable.
India said it had lost more than half of its capacity.India suffered up to 60% disruption, a national industry body told Reuters news agency.
Internet services have been disrupted in parts of the Middle East following damage to an undersea cable in the Mediterranean, according to reports.
In Dubai, one of the two internet service providers (ISP) was completely down, reported AP.
Source: BBC News
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