If the internet service went down..Do we have a back-up plan?

What we do if the internet went down…I don’t mean the internet at your work place or at your home or even in your neighborhood, but in an entire region.

This week undersea communication cables were severed, the cables run under the Mediterranean between Egypt and Italy. Internet users in Egypt, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia and in India experienced slow internet speed.

What we do when the internet is not working? What alternatives do we have to keep our work flowing? I use the net for about 8-10 hours a day and not having internet access or limited access means big productivity loss for me.

As I write this article, I am sitting in India and yahoo e-mail seems to be super slow.
How would you work without internet? What backup plans companies or individuals could make to prepare for internet downtime?