Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered during the third week of December after three major unelerwater data lines were cut, according to France Telecom. Many countries were affected by the outage, including India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Malaysia, which all lost a significant percentage on their voice traffic to Europe. For example, 82 percent of India's voice traffic capability to Europe was out of service early Friday, although that situation has now improved, the spokeswoman said. Internet traffic also has been hit by the incident, but is is difficult to say exactly how many Internet users were affected by the cut.