Apparently Mobily, the second telecommunications company in Saudi Arabia is having major problems with their network. Mobily users say that they don’t have any reception and if you tried to call a person on Mobily from an STC number then you will a “Network Busy” error.
Update: It is 11:30pm and the Mobily network at least in Riyadh is still unavailable.
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This problem is exceeding the time period of 7 hours now. Something should be done soon before the reputations goes to 0.
As Salaam Alaikum,
Yes the network is down in riyadh, as of this time at 11:15 KSA Time, the network is still down!!!!!
That’s true. we can only wait and see.
Mobily’s website is not offering any information regarding that as well.
I am still trying to call my friend who uses a mobily number and it won’t connect me
I have not verified but my friend told me even SAWA is not working…..
I guess they have covered well… u know that ericsson is in charge of the network and zain sharing the network with mobily… i see some heads will be cut off on saturday……
The Worse thing was even emergency numbers were not working..
It was a major breakdown with the satellite connection!
It works now
they said it was caused by saudi oger….. they have issues a statement on that.
saudi oger is 35% owened by STC…. does this say something to you?
The problem still exist in eastern province since yesterday night.
Now is 9:33 PM (6-October-2008) the network still down.
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