I was on line looking at pre-paid cell phones. The problem is that I never use a telephone. I do not want to pay $40.00 or $50.00 a month for a cell phone. I do want to have a cell phone. They often are a big help. I can get by with 300 minutes a year or less.
So I want a cheap service. My problem, and I know this is dumb, I want a real nice phone. I want a phone that has a good camera built in the phone. I am a geek I admit it. But I can not bring myself to get cheap pre-paid cell phone service and spend a arm and a leg for a high tech high priced cell phone. So I end up with nothing.
One of the hosting companies I used for years was Flexihosting. They were excellent and I can recommend them. They were super fast on helping with problems and they were excellent when it came to keeping you up to date on problems and issues.
Here is some information they just put out. My guess is that this problem does not just effect them.
"A strong earthquake off Taiwan's southern coast has damage undersea cables disrupting Internet communication across the region as several major Trans Atlantic transit and peering links were damaged. We understand that our upstream providers have already diverted data traffic through backup links and Asia Pacific Cable Network engineers have already begun work repairing their undersea cables.
The spokesperson from Asia Pacific Cable Network estimates that the complete restoration of the link to full capacity will take approximately 3 weeks however he assure that connectivity will improve by the day.
More news about this quake can be found at:
1)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYHaxhLE4rr0&refer=home
2) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061227.wquake26/BNStory/International/home
Update: 12/28/2006 from CNN
