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Much of Africa Enjoyed an Internet Outage Thursday

Accepted submission by xpda http://xpda.com at 2016-01-23 15:31:19
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Two major undersea communications cables were down Thursday, bringing down the internet [thestack.com] for most African countries for 2 hours and 40 minutes [techcentral.co.za]. A Seacom cable was cut by civil construction workers at the time time its backup route, a West Africa Cable System cable, was down.


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