Dhiraagu apologises for internet outage, offers a special discount
Apologising for the outage, Dhiraagu said the discount will be included in January’s internet bill. A discount rate has not been finalised yet.
21 Jan 2017, 9:00 AM
The telecoms giant Dhiraagu has announced a “special discount” for all of its broadband customers after cyber attacks disrupted internet service across the Maldives for more than a week.
Apologising for the outage, Mohamed Mirushan, a spokesman for the national telecoms firm, said the discount will be included in January’s internet bill. A rate has not been finalised yet.
“All our fixed broadband customers will get this special discount. We decided to give this offer to fixed broadband customers because they were the most affected,” he said.
Dhiraagu blamed the service outage on DDoS or distributed denial of service attacks from unknown culprits.
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