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Originally Posted by greencreeper
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118125,00.htm
""France Telecom will send a cable ship out to fix and repair the problem," said a BT spokesman, adding that the cause of the problem is not known. It's also not clear how long the fault will take to repair. "
 How far is it to America and how does the ship find the fault? I hope it doesn't have to examine every bit of the cable - could take months  It'll be sharks - should kill more of them
Oddly enough, for me, everything is working faster than it's ever worked before 
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from your zdnet source
"According to BT, a member of the consortium, the disruption occurred between France and the Netherlands and disrupted a range of telecommunication services. "
Here's a map,
They don't have to go trawing across the atlantic, just up the north sea...