In early September 2025, many undersea fiber-optic cables in the red sea were cut once again, which has shaken the digital lifelines of Asia and Middle east. Fibre optic cables on the ocean Floor. File pic: iStock Internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East was disrupted after undersea. Multiple undersea cables were severed in the Red Sea over the weekend, disrupting internet connectivity across parts of Asia and the Middle East, technology companies and monitoring groups reported Sunday. This incident caused widespread internet outages in India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait which faced slow network connectivity.