India Works to Resume Internet Services

February 1, 2008 India Works to Resume Internet Services (AP)

Map shows damaged undersea cables off the coast of Egypt.

(AP) -- Bandwidth providers shifted India's Internet traffic to cables under the Pacific Ocean on Friday and said that by day's end they expected service to be back to about 80 percent of its speed before two cables were cut beneath the Mediterranean Sea.

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