Repair teams working on Internet outages - Seacom

22 January 2016 - 09:19 By TMG Digital

Telecommunications cable company Seacom‚ whose undersea cable also links South Africa with East Africa and Europe‚ said on Thursday afternoon it was experiencing a “critical outage” in Egypt. In a statement‚ the company said: “Seacom is experiencing multiple outages on the terrestrial network across Egypt.All our international connectivity through Egypt has been affected since 14:06GMT on the 21st January 2016”.“Repair teams have been dispatched. Seacom continues to monitor the situation closely and will provide necessary updates.”See the release here ..

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