Etisalat slow internet connection (2)

Etisalat technical support are with me on the line. I give the usual complaint about the slow connection and ask about the recent upgrade I’ve done to be able to browse the net. The answer came worse than expected: the network is slow due to problems in some cables in the Mediterranean. What’s new? It is the second time in less than a year that these things happen. Relying on a low bandwidth offer to cut costs is not helpful. Relying on cables period, seems so outdated. Why don’t they use satellite connections to avoid such mishaps or use dual technologies (cable plus sat)  to keep the traffic flowing on the net? The answer is easy: if we can’t do it, no one should or can. Orbit for instance, the encrypted satellite TV network, offers a broadband connection on its receiver. Tens of times faster than any service Etisalat gives. However, Etisalat chose to block its distribution of this service in the UAE. All for the sake of making money with no consideration for people who are trying to do business or browse for various reasons, least of all to catch up with the world and be a true part of the global village and contributors to it. 

To get back to my request, it is pending ‘technical revision by some one in Etisalat’. Revise what? Why? I don’t really know. But then again, we are not in Europe or Asia or the USA.

~ by rafickd1 on December 20, 2008.