The past week I have been driving to work using the Gulf Road. On my way I kept spotting this group of American looking people on the side of the road (on the side going towards Salmiya) with their GMC’s parked up on the side walk and a little shade setup. I thought maybe they were shooting a TV commercial but then I noticed that everyday they would move a bit. First time I saw them they were in front of Burj al Hamam restaurant, then I saw them near Fridays and just now on my way back from the beach I saw them near Marina Mall. So, I decided to u-turn and stop and ask them what they were doing.
I park the car and open my window and a guy comes towards me, I ask him if he minds telling me what they are doing since I keep seeing them in a different spot every day. The guy replies back to me with an Australian accent that they are installing fiber optic cables. I thank him and drive off.
So mystery solved, now if you see the SUVs parked on the side of the road you know why they are there.
update: a reader mentioned the following article related to fiber optics in Kuwait. Looks like we might be getting some good stuff. [Link]
22 replies on “Its Fiber Optics”
maybe thats what they want you to think, maybe they’re really setting up a line of plastic explosives to get rid of the entire bay.
Or maybe they’re setting up fibre optics.
fiber optic cable for what? hello 100KD/month internet.
You mean spy optics, big brother is watching us!
white people installing fiber optics and they drive gmc… sneaky!!! why can’t other cheap labourers do that… i mean, think again.. white people or aussies installing fiber optics cables on the roads who drive gmc… hmm, i didn’t get it still.. it would make sense if they were sitting in offices and setup the whole system with geeky knowledge like network administrators but …
hmm i really HOPE it makes internet prices low, real low, as they are currently gay ass. If they make it something like 200kd a month for fiber optics fuck em. fiber optics is also gonna be installed in south surra, give them 20 years there
Curiostiy is productive!
rather creative
aatif, Fiber Optic terminations are to be done by some one who really kno about it…its not silly business
Question: What are fiber optics?
Fiberoptics do alot more than provide internet access. And for the record; the high prices are not dictated by the connection between the ISP and your home. They are dictated by the cost to interconnect to other countries/backbones. What might become cheaper as a result of fiber? Telephones and Television.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_optics
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https://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NVN/is_11_25/ai_n13651175
I found this site about installing fiber optic in kkuwait.
It might help 🙂
I dont think white people will be installing fiber optics in the street for internet access or other communications mean. you’ll probably find indians sweating the shit out of their pants doing all the tough work. now, u really think a bunch of probably australian white boys with gmc;s will actually tell u wt they’re doing?! emm..i dont think soo.?!
juicy – that article was great but I just can’t imagine everyone being given this 1) at all 2) free of at least installation charge:
“Every house will have four standard phone lines, and two links for the Internet and ultra-rapid transfer of data or video. The two links can be used as extra phone lines, said Khajah.”
There is a lot of uncertain details everytime they do this kind of thing. Will they dig up all the areas to install these new cables, because none of the areas have the infrastructre so what exactly are they going to do about it. Secodnly Fiber optic prices are going to be expensive right off the bat!
tim,
Probably the infrastructure will be there, but the tel lines/links will default to inactive, and people are charged on activation of each one.
palestinianphilosopher,
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Hi…
I found that the Ministry of Communications (MOC) in Kuwait has chosen ALCATEL Company to supply th fiber optics network.
here is the link
https://www.alcatel.com/vpr/?body=https://www.home.alcatel.com/vpr/vpr.nsf/DateKey/23082005uk
I hope they Believe you now Mark.
I wrote about Kuwait getting fiber back in August: https://k.thekuwaiti.com/index.php/2005/08/29/optical-kuwait/
Stafa:
Fiber-optics can not be installed by low-education workers, its very fragile and quite hard to work with. My office got Fiber last week, we are currently running two 25mbps links from it to the main MOC building in Kuwait city.
I just hope MOC doesn’t offer these hi-speed services through existing IP’s like Qualitynet, Fastelco, etc.
Right on Tim
If MOC had any sense, with the budget at hand, they should be able to atleast get a tier 2 link to help move the country forward.
The problem is with large busines monopolies in Kuwait, they wil find one way or another to get the job subcontracted to them delaying the country a further 5 years.
well I guess I was wrong, because yeasterday I was checking out the united networks branch in marina mall and I asked the guy about a 2mb line, he was like ‘there is but kuwait’s line are too weak to handle the connection’, and i asked him how about fiber optics?! he was like in 2007…