High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
Industry experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known what caused the damage.
Reports say that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain Pakistan and India, are all experiencing severe problems. 
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CNN's Elham Nakhlawi, Mustafa Al Arab, and Caroline Faraj in Dubai, Tess Eastment in New Delhi, and Aneesh Raman in Cairo contributed to this report.
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