One Big Construction Site : A blog about Dubai

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Etisalat blocks part of facebook

Etisalat has once again managed to block an integral part of facebook (or was it just MySpace I'm thinking of the last 5 times they managed to do something like this?) (http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/); this is preventing CSS and other design elements from the website loading properly.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have had it with Etisalat AND my firm charging me a 10% admin. fee for using their Etisalat phone.

Anyone know other options though?

I need to call for local taxi's occasionally in Dubai and want to call long distance, international to the U.S.

theplasticpoet said...

Other options? There's just one.
Du.

Which wouldn't change a thing. Because it's the TRA that says who blocks what.

And having used both Du and Etisalat, I can say that Du just sucks bad. They are slightly cheaper tough.

Anonymous said...

Am not on facebook so, dun really matter.

Melanie Nelson said...

I can login to my MySpace account, but am blocked from using the 'Browse' feature.

When I asked why, I was given the response "Dating Websites are not allowed".

Ridiculous!

Melanie Nelson said...

I can log into my MySpace account, but I am blocked from using the 'Browse' feature that would allow me to find friends in the UAE. (It's not easy to casually make friends on the streets around here, that's for sure)

When I asked why, the response was "Dating websites are not allowed."

Ridiculous!

Dani said...

they blocked digg. :(

Dani said...

ah jeez no, it's just my screwed up router! X)

Paresh said...

Unrelated note -

Changing Blog URL and Name

I'm shortening the blog URL / name to c-flat.blogspot.com

Please update your links accordingly. Thanks!