TRUE BELIEVER - CFO Asia.com

By Karen Yap and Tom Leander

“Pakistan is resilient,” says Wattoo. “I understand [investors’] reservations, but the economic story is still robust.” He adds, “It’s a relief that many of our foreign partners can see this, too.”

Finger-thin cables tie Internet together - Y! News

By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK - The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor.

The foundation for a connected world seems quite fragile, an impression reinforced this week when a break in two cables in the Mediterranean Sea disrupted communications across the Middle East and into India and neighboring countries.

Yet the network itself is fairly resilient. In fact, cables are broken all the time, usually by fishing lines and ship anchors, and few of us notice. It takes a confluence of factors for a cable break to cause an outage.