• Maldives: 100 per cent out of service
• India: 82 per cent out of service
• Qatar: 73 per cent out of service
• Djibouti: 71 per cent out of service
• UAE: 68 per cent out of service
• Zambia: 62 per cent out of service
• Saudi Arabia: 55 per cent out of service
• Egypt: 52 per cent out of service
• Pakistan: 51 per cent out of service
• Malaysia: 42 per cent out of service
• Taiwan: 39 per cent out of service
• Yemen: 38 per cent out of service
• Syria: 36 per cent out of service
• Lebanon: 16 per cent out of service

The cause of the internet going kaput is not known yet, however, the France Telecom said, "We have two assumptions, first is an underwater earthquake or it could be simply a ship in the area which has cut the cable," ships dragging anchors are known to cut underwater cables in the past. A Tata Communication spokesperson maintained the first conjecture, blaming underwater seismic activity. On Friday morning, the BBC reported some seismic activity near Malta, where the break apparently occurred, shortly before the detection of the cut.

On the other hand, some trade analyst felt that outsourcing sectors in India might be hit hard, if the situation did not improve soon. Early on Friday, India’s voice traffic capacity to Europe was out of service by 82 per cent. Jonathan Wright, director of wholesale products at Interoute, maintained that, "this will grind economies to a halt for a short space of time. If you look at, say, local financial markets who trade with European and US markets, the speed at which they get live data will be compromised." He also said, "If you think how quickly trades can be placed, if they are suffering from bad latency times, then by the time a trade is placed, the market may well have moved on."

This is the second time in a year row, earlier in January this year internet services has been disrupted in parts of the Middle East and Asia after damage to undersea cables in the Mediterranean, disrupting 70 per cent of the nationwide network. Submarine cables cuts have become a looming problem to internet users of the world, besides other threats. A more redundant, multiple routes, and better undersea cables protection must be explored to prevent the repeated damages to undersea cables.