Third Cable Cut — Now Iran Has No World Wide Web Access

I told you early Wednesday morning that much of the Middle East and most of India lost Web access when an undersea cable was cut (it turns out that two cables were cut). Now, a third cable or possibly a fourth has apparently been severed, and the entire nation of

IRAN HAS ZERO World Wide Web ACCESS. UPDATE 10:52 AM 2/2/2008: Note that Iran is currently online — the questions, still unresolved, are: 1) Did Iran experience an outage yesterday; 2) were 2, 3 or 4 cables cut; and 3) was it sabotage or accident?

Orginal post by Mike

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