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Tedata is the only ISP working in egypt right now and it is even so slow. Soficom is down, Link is down. any other users using another ISP is can navigate through the internet
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walid has internet in zagazig but he said the news was saying 10 days!!! somethin about some cables in the sea was messed up
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ya walid named a few countries like libia and tores or somethin like that but thank god he has his i would go nuts not chattin to him alot of people make money off their internet can u immagine yr money line cut in an instant?? walid also said somethin about getting satalite internet for egypt what ever that means?
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Some reports are quoting other reports that say it was a ship's anchor that snagged both undersea cables near Alexandria harbour
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Some reports are quoting other reports that say it was a ship's anchor that snagged both undersea cables near Alexandria harbour
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quote:Originally posted by Vader: I heard it was 48 hours.
I prefer to believe your words.2 days are much better than 10 days loll. I hope that it will work out as soon as possible!But other friends also complained yesterday from their connection..one of them was in Saudia..weird! Posts: 1134 | From: NoNe oF uR BuSiNeS | Registered: Jul 2004
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Glad to see some of you have internet Its going to make my evenings boring thats for sure I hope they hurry up and fix the problem
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Internet outage hits business from Cairo to Colombo 1 hour ago
CAIRO (AFP) — Damage to undersea Internet cables hit business across the Middle East and South Asia on Thursday, including the vital call centre industry, prompting calls for people to limit their surfing.
Around 70 percent of Internet users in Egypt have been affected since two submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged on Wednesday, also rupturing connections thousands of kilometres (miles) away.
The cause of the damage is not yet known.
State-owned Saudi Telecom reported the loss of more than 50 percent of its international lines, and said it did not know when normal service would be restored, the Arab News reported.
Egypt's telecommunications ministry said repairs would take "at least a week" and appealed for users not to overload the backup system with hefty downloads and file-sharing applications.
"Two of our cables are affected; everyone will go onto a third cable," ministry spokesman Mohammed Taymur told AFP. "But that will not be enough bandwidth. The cable will be overloaded and no one will be able to get access."
"People should know how to use the Internet because people who download music and films are going to affect businesses who have more important things to do."
Taymur said a company had been asked to repair the cables but that "for the time being we don't know the cause. The two cables are a kilometre (over half a mile) apart and we don't know what could have affected both at the same time."
Like India, Egypt has a major call centre industry which has been affected by the outage, with a telecommunications ministry statement saying productivity was down to 30 percent.
The statement named other affected Arab countries as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Qatar and Bahrain.
Egyptian blogger The Arabist said he would "resume posting after the problem is resolved" and predicted, with a hint of sarcasm, "complete social breakdown in vast swathes of (upmarket Cairo districts) Heliopolis and Mohandiseen as thousands are unable to update their Facebook status."
Bahrain's Batelco issued a statement appealing for people to limit use to browsing and email but to refrain from file-sharing applications which require more bandwidth.
Gas-rich Qatar said that less than 40 percent of its Internet services were affected but that international phone lines were functioning normally.
The Al-Raya daily quoted one of national operator QTel's directors as saying that repairs in the Mediterranean could take up to two weeks.
In Muscat, OmanTel issued a statement saying it had reestablished 76 percent of Internet services by Thursday.
In Kuwait, the government said "weather conditions and maritime traffic" had damaged two cables, affecting most of the region.
India's Internet-dependent outsourcing industry was also severely disrupted, with businesses saying it may take up to 15 days to return to normal.
"Information-technology companies, software companies and call centres that provide online services to the UK or the US East Coast are the worst affected," said Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India.
India's 11 billion dollar outsourcing industry employs 700,000 people working for companies that deliver services ranging from answering customer queries to to analysing equity markets for global clients.
The industry serves clients mainly in the US and Europe that sought to cut costs by farming out work to the country.
Neighbouring Bangladesh was also hit, with an official from the state Telegraph and Telephone Board saying that "voice and data traffic bound for Europe and America is not working. It slowed down the Internet services in the country."
Another Bangladesh provider, BDCom, said it was running at a quarter of its usual capacity.
"Our operations have slowed down. All the ISPs and call centres have also experienced similar problems," said Sabbir Ahmed Suman, BDCom director and a senior member of the Bangladesh Internet Service Providers Association.
Sri Lanka also faced a drastic drop in service quality, according to Sri Lanka Telecom, the country's largest Internet service provider.
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<and predicted, with a hint of sarcasm, "complete social breakdown in vast swathes of upmarket Cairo districts, Heliopolis and Mohandiseen as thousands are unable to update their Facebook status."
quote:Originally posted by didi_elsayed: Damn...how long time is this gonna take?Days?One friend told me its gonna be 10 days,another one says 2days.Whats the truth anyway?
If the sub-marine cables can be fixed in two days that's great but it will take another few days for middle-eastern Internet to 'work'. Some servers on the Internet have gone down as a result of the cable break and others were taken offline early on 30 Jan'. These machines need to update and synchronise with the world-wide-web and THEN we get full speed back
I doubt that any cables were cut - and if they were, the fibre-optic cables wouldn't be too important as the data is re-routed through different networks normally. The reason Egypt is badly affected is that 'cables' don't come in from the south, west or east - just the north.
The truth is that no-one can tell you how long it will take - how long is a piece of string?
I know it's inconvenient for us but banks and financial institutions will be badly hit which will, obviously, have a knock-on effect but they have lines which are privileged... and rightly so.
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so why can i get connection to egypt some of the time and not others. Also i can phone a number and it works then 5 mins later says its switched off......the joys of egypt
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Mine's ok! Last night and tonight - didn't come online until the evening though. Got to make a 1 hour phone call on Skype tomorrow morning so that should be interesting - lucky I've got the usb modem thingummy bob.
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