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Customers of the Dubai telecoms company Du said its home broadband service was running significantly slower than usual on Saturday, with many websites and basic apps failing to load. <\/p>\n

Internet trackers showed a sharp uptick in complaints throughout Saturday, on what marked the first weekend since the summer break.<\/p>\n

Du issued no official comment on the apparent slowdown but its help desk services on social media fielded a raft of requests for help. <\/p>\n

The internet provider was quick to respond to a series of messages on social media from customers whose internet had ground to a halt. <\/p>\n

UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pocketsThe National Archives, Abu Dhabi<\/p>\n

Founded over 50 years ago, the National Archives collects valuable historical material relating to the UAE, and is the oldest and richest archive relating to the Arabian Gulf. <\/p>\n

Much of the material can be viewed on line at the Arabian Gulf Digital Archive – https:\/\/www.agda.ae\/en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Customers of the Dubai telecoms company Du said its home broadband service was running significantly slower than usual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[61,206,60,1284,329,80,4969],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-ie","tag-internet","tag-ireland","tag-standard","tag-story","tag-technology","tag-uae-desk-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}