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February 2008 Blog Posts

Conspiracy Theorists on Internet Outage

Iran has been completely cut off. Israel, Iraq and Lebanon are not affected at all.

With several undersea cables cut within days, the rest of the Middle East,

North Africa and South Asia including India and Pakistan are having

serious Internet problems. Is all of this just a coincidence? These

questions are being raised in various ways and reported by Jerusalem

Post and CNN on the causes of this massive outage. Many find it

difficult to accept the ostensible reason:… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 4, 2008 at 8:35am — No Comments

Cricket Super Bowl in South Asia?

Super Bowl XLII

As New England Patriots meet New York Giants for Super Bowl XLII tomorrow,

there is the usual annual excitement among the football fans planning

for Super Bowl parties around the country. In addition to being a great

sporting event, Super Bowl has also become a gigantic commercial

extravaganza for a whole range of businesses. For example, the media

are the big beneficiaries of the multi-million dollar TV… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 2, 2008 at 11:15am — No Comments

Internet Woes Persist in Pakistan As Second Cable Snapped

The Falcon cable, owned by FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe)

Telecom, was snapped on Friday morning, according to a BBC report.

This is the second undersea cable that has gone down in two days. This

latest cable is believed to lie alongside SWM4 undersea that snapped

earlier.

The cause of the latest break has not been confirmed but a repair ship has been deployed, said owner Flag Telecom. FLAG is a

28,000km (17,400 mile) long submarine communications… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 1, 2008 at 4:02pm — No Comments

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Like many other countries, Pakistan has a geographic digital divide. Residents of remote areas of the country have significantly lower access to the Internet than those in the urban centers. While the mobile internet usage in the urban areas has reached 65%, only 50% of those living in rural areas have access to it, according to a recent GSMA report titled "State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2026". …

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