Indian internet users struggled with slow surfing speeds and companies tapped redundancy systems to triumph over a disturbance to global connectivity.
The trouble was caused because of the breakdown of two undersea cables in the Mediterranean.

An anchoring ship off Egypt’s Alexandria coast has damaged Indian-owned FLAG cable, and also SEA-ME-WE on Wednesday morning and urgent repair teams had set sail for the site.
An official of Reliance group that possesses FLAG said the repair will take around 10 days.

Wednesday’s disturbance in SEA-ME-WE and Indian-owned FLAG cables had not been answered up till now.
In the meantime, BPOs remained mainly unaffected.
According to a WNS representative, during the collapse, the company managed to connect to the US pipleline for its UK operations and thus avoiding any downtime.
Similarly, spokespersons from TCS, Firstsource and Tech Mahindra said their functionings remained unaffected.
However, business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East was interrupted.
In Cairo, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology stated that the cut in the global communications cable had resulted to a partial disruption of Internet services and other telecommunications across much of Egypt.
At the Egyptian stock market, IT department engineer Mahmoud Mansour said that the disruptions did not have an effect on the functionings at the exchange.
Emergency groups were speedily trying to discover other routes, including by satellites, to end the disruptions, said Minister Tariq Kamel. But service was still sluggish or missing.
Internet service also was interrupted in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf, which markets itself as a top business and luxury tourist spotub.
International telephone service was also affected by the cable break.