Multiple reports say several subsea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea and southern Red Sea near Yemen were severed or damaged, disrupting internet traffic across parts of the Middle East, South Asia and East Africa, and fueling finger‑pointing at Yemen's Iran‑aligned Houthi rebels. Multiple reports say several subsea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea and southern Red Sea near Yemen were severed or damaged, disrupting internet traffic across parts of the Middle East, South Asia and East Africa, and fueling finger‑pointing at Yemen's Iran‑aligned Houthi rebels. Telecommunications in Yemen provides information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television infrastructure in Yemen. Since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network. The infrastructure of the domestic system consists of microwave radio. Just weeks after a warning about potential Houthi threats to subsea cables in the Red Sea, at least one fiber-optic line has been severed at a position off the coast of Yemen, and damage has been reported (but not confirmed) on three more. Until last year, the Red Sea carried about one-eighth of. A series of undersea fiber-optic cable cuts near Yemen have caused regional latency spikes and service outages, highlighting the fragility of global data arteries and the cascading economic risks when they fail.