‘Arab Media & Society‘ runs this report on repairs to the various cut cables that carry telecommunications in the Middle East and India. The piece notes that several of the companies had found temporary solutions with the help of Saudi Telecom by routing traffic through Saudi terrestrial cables.

Middle East, South Asia internet cables “restored by Sunday” cable company

Flag Telecom expects that two of the damaged submarine cables will be repaired by Sunday, the company said in a bulletin on Thursday, 7 February.

Repair crews had reached the site of the damage. “The FALCON Cable cut between Dubai (UAE) and Al Seeb (Oman) is due to a ship anchor, an abandoned anchor (weighting 5-6 tonnes) was found,” Flag Telecom announced on its website.

The company, a wholly-owned unit of India’s second-largest mobile operator Reliance Communications, owns two of the four submarine cables damaged in several separate incidents 30 January to 3 February: The Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe, FLAG Europe-Asia and, secondly, the FALCON cable which runs from Egypt to India.
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