Internet Speed Limits
Well, our dear and most loved telecom (Etisalat - like you have a choice!) has announced a free offer to upgrade your current Al Shamil package to the next higher one, on the occassion of the 10th anniversary of internet access in UAE.
Subscribers to a 256K package will be upgraded to a 512K package; subscribers to a 512K package to 1 Mb, and subscribers to a 1 Mb package to 2Mb. Subscribers to a 2Mb package will remain on the same package but with a significantly reduced price.
So what are you waiting for? What? Say again? Think a little louder! Ahh.. yes. What great, big difference will a little upgrade make anyway! Except for peace of mind that you have a "better" package now!
From 256k to 512k is not a big deal, but from 512k to 2MB "should be" a big deal. But it ain't! I have a 512k at home and a Wi-Fi 2MB in the office. Pageloads and downloads are only slightly faster. Bah! So much for great expectations.
While it is great news, it is worth making an international comparison. Perhaps, the most famous global telco is British Telecom.
Its most basic 2Mb connection works out to Dh108 a month. In the UAE the cost of a 2Mb connection is Dh650 a month (as quoted on the website at the time of going to press). The most expensive BT offering is Dh190 a month.
Now we all know Etisalat makes oil tanker loads of money off its subscribers. And as part of a hugely profitable local enterprise, it is obligated to donate funds into the local economy for the betterment of its nationals.
But isn't it also obligated to continually improve its services for its subscribers? Spending billions of dollars in buying large stakes in foreign telecoms does not benefit us in anyway.
posted by clayfuture at 7:55 PM
12 Comments:
yes... internet access in the uae is one of the most expensive in the world.
monopoly. do we have a choice?
Strangloops -
I feel negative because as the only telecom in UAE, we can ONLY subscribe to Etisalat, so they should feel obligated to give the best and low priced service possible. These offers are like throwing a dog a bone so it would shut up, in this case, us!
I don't know if the proxy is the major hurdle in speed problems. But did you know that our proxy is one of the strongest than any other? Etisalat has hired an American security company for this job and they get paid millions. I read this in a magazine.
One more thing: why do Emaar - and I think Nakheel properties also - get proxy-free internet access? Is there a good reason for doing that? Why do we have to sit behind this invisible wall? Can someone explain?
I think a certain Sheikh was impatient with Etisalat. When Internet City / Media City was set up they established their own internal internet and VOIP systems, and bypassed Etisalat and the proxy completely (it's a Free Zone after all, so why not replace the national monopoly with a local one?).
I don't quite know why/how Emaar properties got to have their own telco (Sahmnet), but that is now being taken over by DIC (dicnet?) who by all accounts have ambitions to be some kind of rival to Etisalat. It's all a bit weird.
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