Low levels of spam recently?
Do you wonder why the number of people offering to transfer large sums of money into your bank account has declined in the last couple of days?
From
OpenNet:
Damaged cable causes Internet blackout in four West African countries
Five days ago, the Appfrica tech blog reported an Internet blackout in Benin, a West African country roughly the size of Ohio. The outage, which also affected neighboring Togo, Niger and Nigeria, was caused by damage to the SAT-3 submarine communications cable, which links Portugal and Spain to South Africa via the West African coastline.
The Internet blackout left Benin, Togo and Niger without an optical fiber link to the outside world, meaning Internet users in these countries have been forced to rely on rare, expensive satellite connections to get online.
That will put a dent in the
419 business...
Posted by DaveH at July 29, 2009 12:24 PM