Fire Fire!!
My husband just got a call and it seems that 6th floor of Town Exchange Communication building got burned down! This is a major thing that caused all ISPs in Kuwait to go down.
Here’s an update: TheKuwaiti.
And another update on this issue:
Rami posted a comment about what really happened, here’s what he said: ”Just to update everyone, the fire started around 10:30pm and it hit the whole 6th floor of TEC. KEMS/Zajil shutdown their systems around 1:15am since the temperature got high and they restored it around 5:15am after getting the green light from MOC. Fasttelco got the most hit since they occupy most of the 6th floor and their network monitoring center is on the same floor.”
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January 29th, 2006 at 8:46 am
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January 29th, 2006 at 9:42 am
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January 29th, 2006 at 10:35 am
Just to update everyone, the fire started around 10:30pm and it hit the whole 6th floor of TEC. KEMS/Zajil shutdown their systems around 1:15am since the temperature got high and they restored it around 5:15am after getting the green light from MOC. Fasttelco got the most hit since they occupy most of the 6th floor and their network monitoring center is on the same floor.
January 29th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Perhaps someone was smoking !!!
January 29th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Another update: it seems that fasttelco is working now like crazy to get back up. Workers are going in and out from their offices and seems to be cleaning up and rebuilding again.
January 29th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
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