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Fourteen provinces without internet and phone services as TOT cable shredded

 

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HUA HIN: -- Fourteen provinces from Prajuap to the far south were left without internet and phone lines yesterday.

 

An accident that is believed to have happened between Cha-Am and Petchaburi severed two fiber optic cables belonging to TOT.

 

The accident involving a vehicle happened on the Petchkasem highway and customers were affected all across the south from Pranburi in Prajuab Khirikhan downwards.

 

TOT engineers from Nakorn Pathom were working on the problem yesterday.

 

Source: Daily News

 
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I feel lucky to be in Hua Hin (Prachuap Khiri Khan Province) south of where the severed cables are and still have internet.

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5 minutes ago, Jack Mountain said:

Just create a hotspot on your Smartphone and you connect to it. With Dtac only 19 Baht/24hrs or 9 Baht for 2 hrs.

 

Just use AIS, it is free.

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So you want to tell us, that Somchai creams a pick-up into the wrong pole and half the country is off the virtual grid?
Welcome to the 21st century then .......... 

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16 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

So you want to tell us, that Somchai creams a pick-up into the wrong pole and half the country is off the virtual grid?
Welcome to the 21st century then .......... 

Maybe the price we pay for that more secure internet and single gateway? (For all who know more, that's called sarcasm)    

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3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Did someone recently say the tangle of overhead cables seen in Thailand was 'quaint'?

Yes, it reminds me of World World II photos of Asian cities.

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And to think that the internet was designed to be anti-fragile by having redundancy built in with multiple routing options.

 

"And to our ToT customers reading this article we have this to say:                                      ".

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2 hours ago, bark said:

Just use AIS, it is free.

 

yes, after you paid for your contract or your prepaid AIS . . 

 . . .all that comes after this . . .

 

is  "Free"!!!!  

 

Holy Cow why did i never come up with that before?

 

 

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29 minutes ago, Shiver said:

And to think that the internet was designed to be anti-fragile by having redundancy built in with multiple routing options.

 

"And to our ToT customers reading this article we have this to say:                                      ".

 

just to think of it . . the whole South of Thailand is connected to Bangkok by only one cable.

 

So nothing comes in from Malaysia?

 

I doubt this, but I would not wonder much if this was true.   TIT !

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2 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

So you want to tell us, that Somchai creams a pick-up into the wrong pole and half the country is off the virtual grid?
Welcome to the 21st century then .......... 

We are sure hanging on a slender thread. 

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As anyone that has looked at the power/ phone line poles knows, disaster is only a heartbeat away on any given day.

Out in the countryside it is worse as no maintenance is done to stop trees growing around the wires. I have even seen the power guys using a tree to use as a pole for the wire that stops the pole with the wire on it falling over.

Next to the house there is a power pole where the stay wire was removed from the ground anchor and left hanging uselessly. The only thing stopping the pole falling over is the power wires themselves.

One has to laugh or one would go stark raving ................................

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This puts the junta's plans for a single Internet gateway into perspective.  If they can't protect Internet connectivity for 14 provinces, why are we to think they can protect connectivity for the proposed gateway?

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46 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

As anyone that has looked at the power/ phone line poles knows, disaster is only a heartbeat away on any given day.

Out in the countryside it is worse as no maintenance is done to stop trees growing around the wires. I have even seen the power guys using a tree to use as a pole for the wire that stops the pole with the wire on it falling over.

Next to the house there is a power pole where the stay wire was removed from the ground anchor and left hanging uselessly. The only thing stopping the pole falling over is the power wires themselves.

One has to laugh or one would go stark raving ................................

Maybe it is to create future ongoing employment? :whistling:

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