Comments on: Optical Cable Cuts Disrupt Internet Service in India & the Middle East http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:34:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: CMT Blog » Viaje al fondo submarino http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-979427 CMT Blog » Viaje al fondo submarino Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:28:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-979427 <p>[...] Nos parece extraordinario que los cables submarinos articulen las telecomunicaciones mundiales,  por eso hemos querido aprovechar este post para recordar algunas de sus curiosidades. Aunque el vídeo que hemos colgado es muy informativo, no alude a uno de los principales problemas a los que se enfrentan las empresas que apuestan por estos tendidos: que algún barco de arrastre accidentalmente les “pesque” uno. Cuando eso ocurre, las comunicaciones entre los países que están conectados a él pueden irse a pique. Literalmente, se quedan sin conexión telefónica y sin Internet. El año pasado se produjeron bastantes cortes de cables submarinos en distintas partes del mundo y, detrás de ellos,  siempre ha planeado la sombra de boicots intencionados. [...]</p> [...] Nos parece extraordinario que los cables submarinos articulen las telecomunicaciones mundiales,  por eso hemos querido aprovechar este post para recordar algunas de sus curiosidades. Aunque el vídeo que hemos colgado es muy informativo, no alude a uno de los principales problemas a los que se enfrentan las empresas que apuestan por estos tendidos: que algún barco de arrastre accidentalmente les “pesque” uno. Cuando eso ocurre, las comunicaciones entre los países que están conectados a él pueden irse a pique. Literalmente, se quedan sin conexión telefónica y sin Internet. El año pasado se produjeron bastantes cortes de cables submarinos en distintas partes del mundo y, detrás de ellos,  siempre ha planeado la sombra de boicots intencionados. [...]

]]> By: How Is Cloud Computing Like Space Travel? http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-931152 How Is Cloud Computing Like Space Travel? Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:03:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-931152 <p>[...] Internet itself has proven fairly resilient to large-scale attacks or dumb mistakes, but services built in the cloud have a less-than-perfect track record. Small things like [...]</p> [...] Internet itself has proven fairly resilient to large-scale attacks or dumb mistakes, but services built in the cloud have a less-than-perfect track record. Small things like [...]

]]> By: Viaje al fondo submarino | CMT Blog http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-928143 Viaje al fondo submarino | CMT Blog Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:34:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-928143 <p>[...] Nos parece extraordinario que los cables submarinos articulen las telecomunicaciones mundiales,  por eso hemos querido aprovechar este post para recordar algunas de sus curiosidades. Aunque el vídeo que hemos colgado es muy informativo, no alude a uno de los principales problemas a los que se enfrentan las empresas que apuestan por estos tendidos: que algún barco de arrastre accidentalmente les “pesque” uno. Cuando eso ocurre, las comunicaciones entre los países que están conectados a él pueden irse a pique. Literalmente, se quedan sin conexión telefónica y sin Internet. El año pasado se produjeron bastantes cortes de cables submarinos en distintas partes del mundo y, detrás de ellos,  siempre ha planeado la sombra de boicots intencionados. [...]</p> [...] Nos parece extraordinario que los cables submarinos articulen las telecomunicaciones mundiales,  por eso hemos querido aprovechar este post para recordar algunas de sus curiosidades. Aunque el vídeo que hemos colgado es muy informativo, no alude a uno de los principales problemas a los que se enfrentan las empresas que apuestan por estos tendidos: que algún barco de arrastre accidentalmente les “pesque” uno. Cuando eso ocurre, las comunicaciones entre los países que están conectados a él pueden irse a pique. Literalmente, se quedan sin conexión telefónica y sin Internet. El año pasado se produjeron bastantes cortes de cables submarinos en distintas partes del mundo y, detrás de ellos,  siempre ha planeado la sombra de boicots intencionados. [...]

]]> By: Internet Disrupted across Asia and Middle East as Undersea Cables Cut Again | Inquisitive Archive http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-923447 Internet Disrupted across Asia and Middle East as Undersea Cables Cut Again | Inquisitive Archive Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:21:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-923447 <p>[...] linking Europe and Asia, which were damaged by ships early this year, have reportedly been cut again causing severe disruption to internet and voice traffic in the Middle East and other parts of [...]</p> [...] linking Europe and Asia, which were damaged by ships early this year, have reportedly been cut again causing severe disruption to internet and voice traffic in the Middle East and other parts of [...]

]]> By: Viaje al fondo submarino « Blog CMT http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-922590 Viaje al fondo submarino « Blog CMT Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:54:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-922590 <p>[...] Nos parece extraordinario que los cables submarinos articulen las telecomunicaciones mundiales,  por eso hemos querido aprovechar este post para recordar algunas de sus curiosidades. Aunque el vídeo que hemos colgado es muy informativo, no alude a uno de los principales problemas a los que se enfrentan las empresas que apuestan por estos tendidos: que algún barco de arrastre accidentalmente les “pesque” uno. Cuando eso ocurre, las comunicaciones entre los países que están conectados a él pueden irse a pique. Literalmente, se quedan sin conexión telefónica y sin Internet. El año pasado se produjeron bastantes cortes de cables submarinos en distintas partes del mundo y, detrás de ellos,  siempre ha planeado la sombra de boicots intencionados. [...]</p> [...] Nos parece extraordinario que los cables submarinos articulen las telecomunicaciones mundiales,  por eso hemos querido aprovechar este post para recordar algunas de sus curiosidades. Aunque el vídeo que hemos colgado es muy informativo, no alude a uno de los principales problemas a los que se enfrentan las empresas que apuestan por estos tendidos: que algún barco de arrastre accidentalmente les “pesque” uno. Cuando eso ocurre, las comunicaciones entre los países que están conectados a él pueden irse a pique. Literalmente, se quedan sin conexión telefónica y sin Internet. El año pasado se produjeron bastantes cortes de cables submarinos en distintas partes del mundo y, detrás de ellos,  siempre ha planeado la sombra de boicots intencionados. [...]

]]> By: Fadi http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-919787 Fadi Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:05:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-919787 <p>you made me lol guys , the internet speed in Qatar is dying, and the latency in the games these days is 3k-7k and disconnects always. now thats what i call it HELL</p> you made me lol guys , the internet speed in Qatar is dying, and the latency in the games these days is 3k-7k and disconnects always. now thats what i call it HELL

]]> By: gurbir singh http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-919603 gurbir singh Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:39:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-919603 <p>The unbelievable drop in Internet speed has got under my skin.My Winter vacations have been ruined and i had some tournaments online coming up too.For dat i have to go to local cafes and shell out more than 100 Rs a day while i pay the same for the internet connection.Anyways does any1 know when the speed be alright?People also u can check your internet speeds at www.speedtest.net Another suggestion is that the ISP provide us with some comfort or compensation for the damage done Gurbir Chd</p> The unbelievable drop in Internet speed has got under my skin.My Winter vacations have been ruined and i had some tournaments online coming up too.For dat i have to go to local cafes and shell out more than 100 Rs a day while i pay the same for the internet connection.Anyways does any1 know when the speed be alright?People also u can check your internet speeds at http://www.speedtest.net Another suggestion is that the ISP provide us with some comfort or compensation for the damage done Gurbir Chd

]]> By: Nitin Gupta http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-919587 Nitin Gupta Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:39:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-919587 <p>Internet browsing & Online gaming is still slow. I mostly do online gaming and downloads in night. I cant play properly on UK & US servers. On www.yahoo.com i used to have 175ms ping and now i got 340ms ping for past 1 week. What the hell they fixed and if they havent when the fook they will fix this shit problem. I also get frequent request timed out and cant open some sites, Which i was use to open last week. Fookin sucks.</p> Internet browsing & Online gaming is still slow. I mostly do online gaming and downloads in night. I cant play properly on UK & US servers. On http://www.yahoo.com i used to have 175ms ping and now i got 340ms ping for past 1 week. What the hell they fixed and if they havent when the fook they will fix this shit problem. I also get frequent request timed out and cant open some sites, Which i was use to open last week. Fookin sucks.

]]> By: Fahim http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-919516 Fahim Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:10:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-919516 <p>Still the Net speed is very much slower in Bangladesh....no sign of improvement.</p> Still the Net speed is very much slower in Bangladesh….no sign of improvement.

]]> By: Tim http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-919343 Tim Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:50:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-919343 <p>Yes Jonas is quite right in his comments. Due to this cut, besides the fact that we continue to pay same for internet and more for expensive telephone calls, the worst effected are the business that are largely dependent on internet. We ourselves need to upload and download lot of data every day and the speed is just unbelievable these days. I mean unbelievably slow LOL.</p> <p>Now well this is the fun of having hi-tech services. When they are not there, do we learn how dangerous it to depend upon them. But now that we have chosen, can we survive without them ??</p> <p>Time to go back to the stone age perhaps and why not, you don't pay for strip tease LOL !!!!!</p> Yes Jonas is quite right in his comments. Due to this cut, besides the fact that we continue to pay same for internet and more for expensive telephone calls, the worst effected are the business that are largely dependent on internet. We ourselves need to upload and download lot of data every day and the speed is just unbelievable these days. I mean unbelievably slow LOL.

Now well this is the fun of having hi-tech services. When they are not there, do we learn how dangerous it to depend upon them. But now that we have chosen, can we survive without them ??

Time to go back to the stone age perhaps and why not, you don’t pay for strip tease LOL !!!!!

]]> By: The Jonas http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-919293 The Jonas Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:06:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-919293 <p>great! just great. actually I don't notice a difference except that the half of the internet which isn't blocked by Etisalat isn't working either now (slight exaggeration). No change in speed, connection's always peak at 2b/s (no seriously, when I get 70kb/sec i'm happy, even though I pay for 4Mb/sec) It's so much fun to monopolize, block the internet and charge people a lot for a phone call, ask 180 AED for a sim card and then 100 AED per year. Block Skype because it's against the religious beliefs (read wallet, no offense towards the religious beliefs though), and I could go on for hours. one question, how the [insert a word that has four letters, starts with an "f" and rhymes with "duck" here] did they manage to cut FOUR cables?! lol reminds me of last year, something like 2 cut cables and they want to go out and fix them, lower their anchor and hit another one, lol, talking about... well, n00bs would fit in well here. maybe it's just an act to intercept our uber-secrets...</p> great! just great. actually I don’t notice a difference except that the half of the internet which isn’t blocked by Etisalat isn’t working either now (slight exaggeration). No change in speed, connection’s always peak at 2b/s (no seriously, when I get 70kb/sec i’m happy, even though I pay for 4Mb/sec) It’s so much fun to monopolize, block the internet and charge people a lot for a phone call, ask 180 AED for a sim card and then 100 AED per year. Block Skype because it’s against the religious beliefs (read wallet, no offense towards the religious beliefs though), and I could go on for hours. one question, how the [insert a word that has four letters, starts with an "f" and rhymes with "duck" here] did they manage to cut FOUR cables?! lol reminds me of last year, something like 2 cut cables and they want to go out and fix them, lower their anchor and hit another one, lol, talking about… well, n00bs would fit in well here. maybe it’s just an act to intercept our uber-secrets…

]]> By: harmeet singh http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-919261 harmeet singh Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:11:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-919261 <p>speed of internet is already slow in india but due to this optical fibre cut....the speed has flattened.....and its not gaining in so many days now........waiting for the speed to get better.......................</p> speed of internet is already slow in india but due to this optical fibre cut….the speed has flattened…..and its not gaining in so many days now……..waiting for the speed to get better…………………..

]]> By: sjuppo http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-919250 sjuppo Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:34:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-919250 <p>The internet in thailand feels it to.Now so slow not easy to get any europian website's</p> The internet in thailand feels it to.Now so slow not easy to get any europian website’s

]]> By: Rakesh Verma http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-919060 Rakesh Verma Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:42:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-919060 <p>Frequent disconnection of internet in india now a days. And slow internet speed most of the time.</p> <p>God knows when this will be fixed up.</p> <p>Hope for the best.</p> <p>:)</p> Frequent disconnection of internet in india now a days. And slow internet speed most of the time.

God knows when this will be fixed up.

Hope for the best.

:)

]]> By: Mohit http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-918878 Mohit Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:08:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-918878 <p>I am facing lot of problem due to this wire breakdown. My entire business is running on internet due to this problem my business start suffering. ISP companies has to think this problem seriously and try to fix it ASAP</p> I am facing lot of problem due to this wire breakdown. My entire business is running on internet due to this problem my business start suffering. ISP companies has to think this problem seriously and try to fix it ASAP

]]> By: Xavier Casanova http://gigaom.com/2008/12/19/malta-undersea-cable-fail/#comment-918815 Xavier Casanova Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:01:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=32875#comment-918815 <p>Malta isn't Sicily. Maybe Stacey should have started this article with a quick geography lesson for the Telegeography folks. Unbelievable.</p> Malta isn’t Sicily. Maybe Stacey should have started this article with a quick geography lesson for the Telegeography folks. Unbelievable.

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