Disruption to the internet due to damage in undersea

Can you sustain a disruption to your Internet service? I cannot, when I have tried to call one of the mobile service provider got this message that "Severed cables disrupt internet"?? Eventually I found that Internet services have been disrupted in large parts of the Middle East and India following damage to two undersea cables in the Mediterranean. There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption. It seems it could take up to one week to repair...(<a href="http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/el/archive/2008/01/31/3358.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlserver-qa.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3358" width="1" height="1">