Amidst a massive communications disruption, the Egyptian telecommunications ministry is now asking internet users to temporarily curb music and movie downloading. The chaos started when a pair of Mediterranean undersea cables were unexpectedly damaged, forcing traffic onto a third pipe. The emergency development also affected a broad number of countries across North Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
The resulting bottleneck cramped business activity considerably, including outsourcing and call center facilities in Egypt and India. Businesses have been struggling with crawling page downloads, choppy voice communications, and serious productivity declines.
All of that puts entertainment downloading and streaming into a superfluous category, at least while businesses recover. "People should know how to use the internet because people who download music and films are going to affect businesses who have more important things to do," Egyptian ministry representative Mohammed Taymur told news agency AFP. Authorities projected that repairs will be finished within a ten-day period.

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