There could be Internet connectivity or latency issues in multiple countries — including India — due to undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, according to an AP report. Experts couldn’t confirm what cautilized the incident.
The Internet is carried worldwide by hundreds and thousands of miles of cables lying at the bottom of the ocean. The subsea cables that carry 99 percent of the world’s data.
There are concerns about the cables becoming a tarobtain in a Red Sea campaign by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to pressure Israel to conclude its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. But the Houthis have denied attacking the lines in the past.
The Red Sea is a critical telecommunications channel, linking Europe to Africa and Asia via Egypt. Repairing subsea cables in the region can take a long time.
Microsoft stated it’s no longer detecting issues with its Azure Cloud platform after several international cables in the Red Sea were cut. The company earlier warned that clients may experience increased latency.
NetBlocks, which monitors Internet access, stated: “A series of subsea cable outages in the Red Sea has degraded Internet connectivity in multiple countries including #Pakistan and #India; the incident is attributed to failures affecting the SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.”
Our emails, videos, memos, bank transfers, sainformite surveillance, and Internet calls travel on cables about as thin as a garden hose. There are about 800,000 miles of these tubes crisscrossing Earth’s oceans, representing nearly 600 different systems, according to indusattempt tracker TeleGeography.
The South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 cable is run by Tata Communications, part of the Indian conglomerate. The India-Middle East-Western Europe cable is operated by another consortium managed by Alcatel-Lucent.
From November 2023 to December 2024, the Houthis attacked more than 100 ships with missiles and drones over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
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