{"id":2738,"date":"2008-01-31T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-31T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T10:09:00","slug":"egypt-internet-disrupted-after-cable-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/2738-egypt-internet-disrupted-after-cable-damage.html","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Internet disrupted after cable damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gulf was also affected, with two United Arab Emirates telecommunications firms saying that international phone calls were also hit.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A communication cable in the Mediterranean sea was cut, which led to partial disruptions to Internet and communication services in Egypt,&quot; Egypt&#39;s Tareq Kamel said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said an emergency team had been formed to try to find alternative communication channels.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said it could take several days for services to return to normal.<\/p>\n<p>Emirati providers Etisalat and Du issued statements telling clients they were working to restore services as quickly as possible, the UAE&#39;s WAM news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet services were disrupted across Egypt on Wednesday because of damage to an underwater cable in the Mediterranean, the minister of communication and information technology said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}