Cable damage that disrupts Net seen as ‘wake-up call’

For a while, the World Wide Web wasn’t so worldwide.
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Two cables that carry Internet traffic under the Mediterranean Sea snapped, disrupting service yesterday across a swath of Asia and the Middle East.

India took one of the biggest hits, and the damage from its slowdowns and outages affected some US and European companies that rely on its lucrative outsourcing industry to handle customer service calls and other operations.

Full Story: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/02/01/cable_damage_that_disrupts_net_seen_as_wake_up_call/