2008 submarine cable disruption

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  1. 23 Jan - FALCON cable near Bandar Abbas, Iran
  2. 30 Jan - SEA-ME-WE-4 near Alexandria
  3. 30 Jan - FLAG cable near Alexandria
  4. 1 Feb - FALCON cable between Muscat and Dubai, UAE
  5. 3 Feb - DOHA-HALOUL between Qatar and UAE
  6. 4 Feb - SEA-ME-WE-4 near Penang, Malaysia

The 2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East from January 23 to February 4, 2008, causing internet disruptions and slowdowns for users in the Middle East and India. The incident called into doubt the safety of the undersea portion of the Internet cable system.

In late February, there was another outage, this time affecting a fiber optic connection between Singapore and Jakarta.

On December 19, FLAG FEA, GO-1, SEA-ME-WE 3, and SEA-ME-WE 4 were all cut.

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