Coincidence?

This story broke several days ago, but the mystery remains. Four underwater telephonic cables serving the Middle East and India have been severed over the past few days. One or two, you could take to be coincidence, but four? Coincidence seems pretty remote for four.

CAIRO, Egypt — Repair ships arrived off Egypt's Mediterranean coast Tuesday to begin fixing the severed underwater cables that have bedeviled Internet service throughout the Middle East and India since last week.

The ships should help solve the mystery of what happened to the cables, two of four that were damaged within days of one another, a rare coincidence that so far has defied explanation.

It still will be days before Internet service returns to normal. Until then, millions of businesses and private users from Europe to India will continue putting up with blackouts and slow service. The cut cables threw India for a loop, with technicians scrambling to restore Web access to call centers, which handle customer service for many major Western companies.

I had noticed that, apart from political robo calls, the volume of cold calls I've received has declined in the past few days.

Say, I wonder if this recurs several times, would that bring some of these jobs back to the U.S?