[outages] Multiple Subsea System Failures

This has been ongoing now for a few days and I'm surprised it hasn't yet been mentioned here: There are currently cable breaks on multiple cable systems running through Egypt and surrounding areas. From what I've heard there are breaks on I-ME-WE, TE-North, EIG and SEA-ME-WE-3. This is affecting onward connectivity on a number of other cables such as EASSy and Seacom as no restoration capacity is available. This is causing capacity constraints and outages for most operators in Southern and Eastern Africa as well as the Middle East. ETRs of between 1 and 4 weeks depending on whether you speak to the PR people or the engineers. ;-) Anyone else have additional info? -- Graham Benek