Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Etisalat – Telecom Kuthaka!


Etisalat Office - The Globe is the
trade mark for thier buildings
Etisalat was the only telecom service here in UAE. So the charges are also little high. For a new connection I paid 165 Dirham (around 2000 Rupees!). And the call charges also costly. But the local call service is absolutely free (local land line- local land line).
Recently a new Mobile Service (Du) got the permission to do some restricted mobile service here. There is a rumor that more than 50% of the share holders of the new Company are from Etisalat-people. And one day Etisalathine Du 'Vizhungum' ennum kettu.

So the VOIP (Voice-Over-Internet Protocol) were very famous in UAE. But the Etisalat people blocked all such service providers. Here you can not access sites like Skype. I tried many sites all are blocked. But you can call me in +971 501906022 :) .

1 comment:

Victor said...

Hi Naji,
I did not know that skypes are disabled in UAE. I have heard that paypal also does not allow you to regsiter if you are from UAE, is it true? Could you make a try ?