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Re:Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable by ehhthing on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:53AM (#33104841)
The UAE's connectivity isn't actually bad. Latency to most of SEA is quite good (50ms to India, 80ms to Singapore).

But for what I assume to be political reasons latency to Europe is about 20 or 30ms higher then what it could be .

When I was there, I could get sub 100ms latency to France using a Wireguard tunnel to an AWS server in Bahrain, while direct connections were closer to 120-130ms.

Overall though, I found connectivity in the UAE to be absolutely fine by middle eastern standards.

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Re:Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable by rippercushions on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:49AM (#33106054)
Sure, the connectivity itself is fine, the thing that's pathetic is that the only reason they ban calls is to try to protect Etisalat's long-distance phone revenue and to funnel people into its paid alternatives (are they still charging from Botim?).
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