I think Qtel's PR department are incredible. Literally. Incredible.

Internet services in Qatar were not severely affected despite a breakdown of a submarine cable network in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday.

"There is no major impact for Qatar's communication services as we have many cable operators," said Adel Al Mutawa, Qtel.

Source: The Peninsula

Meanwhile, in the real world, I have trouble loading any web page before the server times out.

There obviously isn't sufficient redundancy in the cable network, and Qtel have known this since the last time the cables were cut.