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Cut cables disrupts Internet connection in Saudi Arabia and other countries

Published on December 19, 2008 by in Saudi Internet

I am sure you are already experiencing a slow connection to the Internet. That’s because an Internet cable in the sea was cut, again. Saudi Arabia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Egypt, Taiwan and Pakistan are effected by it the most and it will probably take until December 31st to be fixed.

Read more about it at Bloomberg, AFP, BBC and The Associated Press.

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  • Chimchar

    How are these cables being cut? This didn’t used to happen before, did it?

    I have very important procrastination planned for the week, and now my plans are ruined.

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  • HAssan

    OMG VPN is down, security files cannot be downloaded , and i have to wait for the new year !! thx very much

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  • meer

    Yep that is fail :( however the bright side for me at least ^^ that i started looking for a saudi wow related site (since wow latency is over 20k) and i came across this site :P i’m currently living in syria and moving in a week or two to saudi arabia to work (just graduated Business/MIS degree) was wondering if i could get an insight on internet connectivity in the kingdom (prices/quality/options etc) since it will be my first priority to get one when i settle in saudi :P since it is a new environment for me and i know no one :< would be nice to get to know nice ppl from the kingdom who are into tech, computers, wow , etc :P cheers nice blog tbh gj

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  • meer

    any insight on wow community in the kingdom :P usual latency etc, i’m dying to know lol ty in advanced (sorry for posting this in a place that is not relevant to teh topic)

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  • http://www.khaled.us Khaled A.

    Well, this site is the closest thing to a Saudi World of Warcraft site :p

    Saudis still play Final Fantasy XI Online, which I abandoned after I got WoW

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  • Chimchar

    Everyone I know still plays WoW, without any sign of slowing down.

    Check out adsl gate, meer. You’ll find info on both the ‘net in here and WoW.

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  • Chimchar

    Additionally, my brother get a green bar in WoW. As long as you stick to DSL you should get good speeds.

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  • http://www.khaled.us Khaled A.

    I am on Awalnet and it is still SLOW and LAGGY! WoW is at 4000ms! And don’t bother downloading anything…

    I believe STC is favoring Afaq/Saudi.net.sa customers over other ISPs. Everyone I know with Awalnet is complaining, me included.

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  • Chimchar

    I’m on Saudi net, and while it has gotten somewhat better, it’s still pretty bad. Youtube, for example, takes ages to load anything. I am much less productive this way.

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  • Kaiser

    With cutted cables or not. The service is still not good as abroad in other countries and STC should not lay the blame entirly on the “poor defenseless cable”.

    Why the service is not as good as in other countries? The problem is as I read in an old news article is, and I quote:

    “The answer to his question may partly be due to the presence of cable television infrastructure in other countries, allowing consumers more options and service providers more competition.”

    And the aricle goes on saying:

    “But because Saudi Arabia outlawed cable television and never developed this infrastructure, Saudi consumers do not have this option.”

    I tried looking up on this “infrastructure”. Is it so hard for a country which was and still blessed by Allahs grace and kindness to build up a better “infrastructure” for its citizens?

    Well, I do not know…but I think I found myself a new interesting search topic I will study this week.

    Peace Kaiser Soze

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