When the internet goes down, all hell breaks loose. Just keep praying that you don’t have to call tech support for Dell, AT&T or any number of other companies who outsource their “customer service” departments.

Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.

One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started Wednesday, on a major undersea cable failure in the Mediterranean.

India’s Internet bandwidth has been sliced in half, The Associated Press reported, leaving its lucrative outsourcing industry trying to reroute traffic to satellites and other cables through Asia.

Reports say that Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain are also experiencing severe problems.

On a sidenote, with internet and phone services reduced, the amount of friendly* traffic I get from some countries should drop considerably for a few days. There was a point when I could time the attacks on my site with a Patek Gondolo watch. Down to the second. I’m glad those days are over, but I still love the watch.

* The term friendly refers to the numerous hack attempts I get at one of my sites from specific countries in the mid-East.

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