Egypt recommends that people restrict their use of the Net

The Egyptian Ministry of Telecommunications has just asked for domestic Internet users to limit downloading heavy content to avoid the transmission of congestion, which has been quite sluggish and " cramped " since the breakdown. cable in the middle of last week.

Two of the total of 3 undersea cable axes in charge of both Egypt's Internet connection were badly damaged, causing all traffic to flow into the remaining cable shaft.

No explanation has been given for this bad incident, in addition to predicting "remedial work takes at least 2 weeks".

" Users should not download music and movies at this time, because it will affect the work and the need for more urgent information of others," the Ministry of Telecommunications representative said.

When asked how much "level 3" movies take up Internet traffic to Egypt, he replied, "That's another matter. Everyone has the right to download what they like. You can't ban people from downloading movies." Yes, because the law allows them to do so ".

Source: AFP The cable breakdown has caused a serious impact on Egypt's rough processing industry, which is striving to become a "Second India".

Egypt's strengths are customer service switchboards for Western businesses, but in the current context, they can only operate with a third of normal capacity.

Impotence in disaster response

According to the latest information, Egypt recently recovered about 50% of the connection capacity, enough for users to read and send mail normally but could not conduct more complicated activities such as surfing the Web, watching videos, downloading image.

Research firm Gartner said Egyptian roughing companies suffered heavy losses because they had no plans to cope with unexpected disasters. Most plans only handle the "Net drop" situation for up to 1 week, so when the remedial work lasts, heavy losses will inevitably occur.

" This incident will cause extremely negative impact on revenue, reputation and brand names ," commented Gartner research vice president Roberta Witty.

" Terrorism, pandemics, incidents from service providers . can last more than 7 days. It is important for organizations to be prepared to respond well to these situations in at least is 30 days ".

Last week, the Egyptian Ministry of Telecommunications said it had dispatched a lifeboat to a location suspected to be a cable break. However, repairs are difficult to start before Tuesday due to bad weather.

The same cable breakdown that occurred in Asia at the end of 2006 took more than 2 months to fully overcome, causing serious damage to the countries in the region.