"Aden Net" was interrupted due to a glitch in Djibouti... A reminder of the failure of legitimacy in the communications file
English - Monday 31 October 2022 الساعة 02:33 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
The government company, "Aden Net", justified the interruption of its services to its subscribers in the capital, Aden, since Sunday afternoon, as the result of a defect in the external links coming from Djibouti.
The company said, in a brief post on its official Facebook page, that it is in constant contact with the Djiboutian side to address the defect and restore the service to work, expecting the service to return in the coming hours.
The service interruption and the justification provided by the company reminded the story of the mysterious failure of the most important projects that were announced in the liberated areas in recent years by legitimacy, represented by the “Aden Net” project within the International Communications Gateway project launched by former President Hadi 4 years ago.
The launch of the project, which cost, as announced at the time, $100 million, was aimed at providing 4G telecommunications and Internet services in the liberated governorates, as an important step to break the Houthi group's control over the telecommunications file.
The inauguration of the company came after the completion of linking the new international gateway in Aden with the new submarine cable (AAE-1), which is one of the latest submarine cables with a speed of up to 40 terabytes / s, 4 years have passed since the company was unable to expand its services in Aden as well as the neighboring governorates Mysteriously raised eyebrows without any government explanation about it.
The ambiguity was heightened by the only statement from the Minister of Communications, Najib Al-Auj, made last May about the reasons for the failure of the Aden Net project. It was acknowledged that the new gateway was subjected to an "encryption" process that prevented it from benefiting from the new cable services. Which explains the company's resort to providing the Internet through an old submarine cable linking Aden and Djibouti.
While the minister did not explain the details of the encryption process and who caused it, he referred at the time to the ministry’s resorting to an alternative solution by networking with Saudi Arabia, and claimed at the time that the project had been completed. Promising the expansion of Aden Net service to 5 liberated governorates within less than a month, and the launch of a new telecommunications company from Aden in just two months.
Five months after that, Aden Net's latest clarification about the service interruption confirms that the situation is still the same and exposes the lies of the minister's promises, and confirms the continued failure of legitimacy from "Hadi" to "presidential" in the communications file.
