Publish Date: Friday,29 August, 2008, at 01:19 AM Doha Time
Business Reporter
QTEL’S mobile phone service was disrupted in several areas in Doha yesterday as some six fibre optic cables were “accidentally cut” by road maintenance contractors working between Al Jazeera Academy and Abu Hamour petrol station.
As a result, hundreds of mobile phone users in the city could not make or receive calls for a considerable time since noon.
Sources said the areas badly affected included Bin Mahmoud, Al Sadd, Mamoura and Muntaza.
A Qtel spokesman confirmed the service disruption in south and west Doha, which was caused due to the “severe damage” to the fibre optic cables.
He said: “Our special response team is now working to repair the damage. We hope to restore the service in a few hours,” he said.
Qtel said last night the breach was detected at 3.05pm and the service provider’s emergency response team was immediately sent to the area.
Qtel said it was able to “divert phone and data traffic to other switches in its network while the team successfully installed a temporary cable to manage the flow of network traffic in the area.
“Because six distinct cables were breached, including back-up cables, some disruption occurred across voice and data services.”
Service was gradually restored throughout the afternoon, and full capacity was expected to be back by the evening.
Qtel executive director (Group Communications) Adel al-Mutawa said: “Qtel’s emergency response team demonstrated their effectiveness with their swift response to the problem and the restoration of communication services to our customers. However, such disruption is avoidable and we would remind all contractors working in Qatar of the importance of liaising with Qtel’s engineers to avoid such problems occurring in the future.”
Qtel co-ordinates with contractors by providing layout maps and blueprints, as well as having engineers on-site, to avoid disruption to cable networks during building and maintenance work.
“Contractors who do breach cabling systems can be held legally responsible,” he said.
There is NO video streaming blocking...as far as i know...but Qtel is probably having some kind of fiber optic issues lately...yesterday it happened with the mobiles having a 2G coverage ONLY ....all went out of signals for about couple of hours in the afternoon.
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I posted this already
Cable cut hits mobile service
Publish Date: Friday,29 August, 2008, at 01:19 AM Doha Time
Business Reporter
QTEL’S mobile phone service was disrupted in several areas in Doha yesterday as some six fibre optic cables were “accidentally cut” by road maintenance contractors working between Al Jazeera Academy and Abu Hamour petrol station.
As a result, hundreds of mobile phone users in the city could not make or receive calls for a considerable time since noon.
Sources said the areas badly affected included Bin Mahmoud, Al Sadd, Mamoura and Muntaza.
A Qtel spokesman confirmed the service disruption in south and west Doha, which was caused due to the “severe damage” to the fibre optic cables.
He said: “Our special response team is now working to repair the damage. We hope to restore the service in a few hours,” he said.
Qtel said last night the breach was detected at 3.05pm and the service provider’s emergency response team was immediately sent to the area.
Qtel said it was able to “divert phone and data traffic to other switches in its network while the team successfully installed a temporary cable to manage the flow of network traffic in the area.
“Because six distinct cables were breached, including back-up cables, some disruption occurred across voice and data services.”
Service was gradually restored throughout the afternoon, and full capacity was expected to be back by the evening.
Qtel executive director (Group Communications) Adel al-Mutawa said: “Qtel’s emergency response team demonstrated their effectiveness with their swift response to the problem and the restoration of communication services to our customers. However, such disruption is avoidable and we would remind all contractors working in Qatar of the importance of liaising with Qtel’s engineers to avoid such problems occurring in the future.”
Qtel co-ordinates with contractors by providing layout maps and blueprints, as well as having engineers on-site, to avoid disruption to cable networks during building and maintenance work.
“Contractors who do breach cabling systems can be held legally responsible,” he said.
Mmmm ok thanks. I guess I will just have to keep trying.
Thanks
There is NO video streaming blocking...as far as i know...but Qtel is probably having some kind of fiber optic issues lately...yesterday it happened with the mobiles having a 2G coverage ONLY ....all went out of signals for about couple of hours in the afternoon.
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