I got this SMS last night and from what I read and heard on damaged cables, such an issue could take few days if not more to get fixed. Added to that, Lebanon is the only country affected as all other countries have backup cables.
Here are few articles about the internet outage from LBC, DailyStar, SubSea and Wamda.
Seriously,
How good are our telecom. agencies! (MOT, Telecom Regulatory Board, OGERO, and even ALfa and MTC!!)
How IDIOT (underline IDIOT) is it to make the backbone of a country dependent on a single point of failure!
We used to have other Fiber optic lines in the past, before the IMEWE cable. What happened with those? Please do not tell me they were removed!!
We’re one of the few nations that rely entirely on ONE submarine cable for internet connectivity. Pathetic!
Lebanon is so unprepared when it comes to any slight change. We should be fixated with prevention, not cure, in order to avoid vulnerabilities like this. Consider our woes from traffic, transportation, electricity, water, mobile carriers, etc., etc.
The refusal to do anything to plan ahead and anticipate failures, outages, any vicissitudes in general, is what’ll leave us in the dust as other third-world nations pick up pace.
Firefighting instead of Planning Ahead,
and on top of that having dysfunctional authorities 😐
WOOHOO!!
i said: woo-hoo..
هيدا جوّنا, هيدا Ù†Øنا..
I love how they slip in the fact that it’s affecting 8 countries as if that absolves them of any blame for NOT BACKING UP THE SYSTEM!
No mention of the fact that the other 7 countries have back up connections.