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Update: More people are having problems (here and here). The problem is apparently caused by using any external DNS (Google DNS for example). This is very weird. This is not surprising. Some STC customers (including me, Muneeb in Dhahran and Abdullah in Riyadh) are having problems accessing Google. This appears to be random because others told [...] I am about to purchase a Novatel MiFi 2352 or 2372. The MiFi shares a 3G data connection as a wireless access point and it’s battery powered. The difference between the 2 models is this: MiFi 2352 uses the following bands: Tri-band HSUPA/HSDPA 900/1900/2100 MHz and Quad-band GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz. The MiFi 2372 however is: Tri-band [...] Here are the STC Afaq DSL Shamil modem passwords. Thanks to Aly in the comments of this post for posting these. This will hopefully help frustrated users who can’t change the settings: Sagem – F@st 1201 (Sagem Firmware) admin admin Update: a friend forwarded this to me “We would like to inform you that the Internet service has been restored. According to the ISP, the problem was in the IGW which caused slowness in internet browsing”. IGW is managed by STC apparently. Everyone (at least in Riyadh) is complaining about extremely slow Internet connection (twitter links: [...] Qanawati (my channels) is a new service from Saudi Arabia based company Remal IT. The service allows you to check your flight reservations status via SMS. You can check for available flight reservations on the following airlines: Saudi Airlines, Nas air and Sama. You can also check for reservations on all airlines using IATA, check the [...] Saudi Telecom Company has signed a deal with Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade their network so they can serve additional 2 million customers by 2010. Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its packet optical transport solution for DSLAM traffic aggregation and Ethernet business services, along with its DSL and GPON /MSAN technology.
STC needs to work more on [...] The Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is now taking pre-booking requests for their upcoming HTC Magic, a Google Android based phone. The phone will be sold for 2,399SR ($631) and includes a free subscription to a 12-month data plan with a limit of 1 Gigabyte each (notice that STC’s site called it Gega).
STC will hopefully open [...] Mobily has announced that they have extended their 3G coverage in Saudi Arabia. From AME info: Saudi Arabia’s Etihad Etisalat Co. (Mobily) has said it has added a number of the kingdom’s Northern Province’s cities and villages to its advanced 3G network (3.5G and 3.75G) coverage. This latest addition brings to 326 the total number of [...] STC have opened a mirror server for hosting open source files. The server currently have mirrors for CentOS, OpenSuse, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, CPAN, MySQL and OpenOffice. This is not the first mirror of it’s kind in Saudi Arabia, The Internet Service Unit have one as well (mirrors.isu.net.sa). Mirrors are regular file servers (HTTP or FTP) that provide [...] Something odd is appearing to Internet users in Saudi Arabia, random sites for no reason give the following error: ERROR. Access Denied. Access Denied by security policy. Other people on twitter reported they have the same issue and all of them are subscribers [...] |
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