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South Africa Internet Hit by Multiple Subsea Cable Breaks

• h2odragon 3y ago
  > Microsoft says: “We have determined that multiple fibre cables on the West Coast of Africa — WACS, MainOne, SAT3, ACE — have been impacted
  • giuliomagnifico 3y ago
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    • bobthepanda 3y ago
      wrong side of Africa.
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• ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago
  Bring in the zeppelines
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• Log_out_ 3y ago
  The west giveth the west taketh? As in, one authoritarian splinternet , one western splinternet , one Grey zone splinternet?
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• myth_drannon 3y ago
  the government will blame Zionists.
  • jurimasa 3y ago
    And it would be correct
    • nanna 3y ago
      And how would you know? Please go and do your devisive and dubious trolling somewhere else.
      • jurimasa 3y ago
        Not trolling, just a different oppinion than yours. Those do exist.
• bhhaskin 3y ago
  I have a bad feeling this is going to become much more common. It's just takes a ship dragging anchor to damage a cable.
• tibbydudeza 3y ago
  I know the Houthis sabotaged the one in the Red Sea - funny it all broke down in the same span.
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• mistrial9 3y ago
  the Nation of South Africa in the last years (?) "made waves" by hosting BRIC nations for economic development, causing a commonly repeated BRICS acronym in some reporting, no?
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• Havoc 3y ago
  That’s very suspicious. South Africa has good resiliency on cables. About half a dozen, some going around on east side some on west. There are often issues on individual ones - but multiple incidents on both sides? Very sus