Omantel filters are at it again. This time the axe has fallen on http://www.expressindia.com/, the website of The Indian Express, one of the top five English dailies in India. The action of filter is some what skewed – the site has no design, and story links are all over the page with Omantel gyan at the top. P, a of the reader of this blog sent a mail stating my blog was unavailable for sometime early yesterday morning. I guess it was part of the “blockade” which was reported in OCB. Strangely Omantel has been tweaking around with Google products for sometime now – last month blogger.com and gmail.com was in the firing line for a few days. I heard even Gtalk has been blocked along with Skype and Yahoo voice chat (I am not very sure about Skype).

Except for VoIP services, I am 100% sure Omantel doesn’t intend to block blogger, google images, gmail, etc. It just happens unintentionally due to lack of expertise at handling state-of-the-art filters. All said and done, Omantel is no where near its cruel counterpart –– Etisalat – who have a history of blocking a variety of social networking tools.

Till then…enjoy!