FACEBOOK BANS PTCL IP: ANOTHER CASE OF PTCL MISMANAGEMENT

You might be aware of the recent problems being faced by PTCL and PTCL based ISP's whereby while trying to log on to Facebook (and Twitter) they get redirected to random pages and get logged on as somebody else, while some PTCL customers have reported issues with Google and Flickr, as well. People who tried to log in with their username / password were randomly re-directed to other users’ accounts, where they had full access to do whatever changes they wanted, including but not restricted to changing their passwords and personal information.

Several cases have come to light where customers sign in and once signed in; they see the home page of another user in front of them. After several complaints regarding this, Facebook is showing a "Bad IP" error, meaning that the PTCL IP address has been flagged with inappropriate behavior. PTCL authorities have had no comments as yet, and the problem, far from being resolved, is increasing steadily as more and more users are realizing that the fault does not lie with Facebook or Twitter, but with PTCL.

Please also note that this problem seems to specifically be affecting PTCL as not a single Transworld customer has faced this problem and no security compromising instances have been reported by any of our customers or users.

Alcatel Lucent- ACE cable

Alcatel-Lucent announced a the turnkey contract valued at over USD 500 million for the new Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable. France Telecom-Orange said in a statement that the 20 members of the ACE consortium have signed the agreement for the construction and maintenance of the cable, which will run between Penmarch in France and Cape Town in South Africa. In its planned configuration, the 17,000km, fibre-optic cable will offer an initial 40Gbps capacity and be operational in the first half of 2012. It will connect 23 countries, either directly in the case of coastal countries or indirectly for landlocked countries.


This will be the first international submarine cable to land in Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sao Tome and Principe, and Equatorial Guinea. For Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon, which are already connected to the SAT3-WASC-SAFE cable (also co-owned by France Telecom-Orange), ACE will secure communications traffic while providing the additional capacity necessary for future growth. ACE will also provide the Orange subsidiaries in eastern Africa and Reunion with an alternative for routing telecommunications traffic to Europe via western Africa. The northern segment of the cable will also diversify transmission arteries between France and Portugal. The participants in the ACE consortium, headed by France Telecom-Orange, are Baharicom Development Company, Benin Telecoms, Cable Consortium of Liberia, Orange Cameroun, Companhia Santomense de Telecomunicacoes, Cote d'Ivoire Telecom, Expresso Telecom Group, Gambia Telecommunications Company, International Mauritania Telecom, Office Congolais des Postes et Telecommunication, Orange Guinea, Orange Mali, Orange Niger, PT Comunicacoes, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, the Gabonese Republic, Sierra Leone Cable, Societe des Telecommunications de Guinee and Sonatel. Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its advance submarine line terminal (1620 Light Manager) working at up to 40Gbps and using phase shift keying-based modulation formats with coherent detection to deal with transmission impairments in an automated manner. Alcatel-Lucent will also supply its branching units and will implement its 1678 Metro Core Connect in the 21 planned landing points.

Source: Telecompaper
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