I got this SMS last night and from what I read and heard on damaged cables, such an issue could take few days if not more to get fixed. Added to that, Lebanon is the only country affected as all other countries have backup cables. Here are few articles about the internet outage from LBC, DailyStar, SubSea and Wamda.

The internet outage Lebanon is going through at the moment is the worst in years as it is nearing the 24 hours mark. The cost of downtime is hard to estimate as there are many parties involved and no decent reports on that matter, however it is possible to have a near estimate by using the available statistics and numbers. outage cost is usually estimated as follows: Outage cost = downtime hours X cost/hour of…

After the 3 hours internet outage two days back, internet in Lebanon went off yesterday at around 9 pm and is still not 100% back. In fact, most WIFIs are not working, only 3G is. The reason is an underwater cable that was cut between Egypt and France, according to Minister of Telecommunications Nicolas Sehnaoui. As a result, Lebanon is operating on 3Gbps instead of 23 Gbps.