France Telecom starts repairing of broken undersea Mediterranean cables

France Telecom starts repairing of broken undersea Mediterranean cables
France Telecom has said that they have started work on repairing the broken undersea Mediterranean cables which has affected internet services in several regions around the world.
Several internet operators around the world have confirmed that they have rerouted their services to ensure that the connectivity is maintained [...]

Pakistan opens up access to YouTube

Pakistan opens up access to YouTube
Pakistan has announced that they are opening up access to the Google owned video sharing service YouTube.
However, they have refused to take the blame for the worldwide access problems to the service due to this blockage.
Shahzada Alam Malik, head of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said in a statement on these [...]

YouTube suffers outage in several regions

YouTube suffers outage in several regions
YouTube confirmed that their service was not accessible in some locations on Sunday.
The company added that the problem was due to erroneous routing information introduced by a Pakistani Internet service provider.
Pakistani ISPs are blocking access to the service over a particular video which is hosted on the video sharing service.
YouTube [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocks access to YouTube

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocks access to YouTube
Pakistan has become the latest country to have blocked access to the popular video sharing service YouTube.
The ban was originally supposed to be implemented on certain videos hosted on the service but apparently the entire site was blocked.
The problem video was a 04:58-minute-long trailer from Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ [...]

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