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 In real life, oliver is a big-shot executive in one Qatari company. Born in a peculiar little European country, he came to Qatar so long ago that he actually remembers Ramada Roundabout. Sometimes, he even wears a suit. And no - oliver is not his real name...
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General
Only in Qatar
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Blackberry in Qatar survival guide
[February 24, 2008]
CHE GUEVARA in Doha: ignorance, lack of cultural sensitivity or both?
[October 2, 2007]
ENOUGH... of those crap boards on traffic lights!
[September 19, 2007]
And a title of most ridiculous advertising campaign in the Middle East goes to....
[September 12, 2007]
About Airport WiFi and smoking
[September 12, 2007]
Snippets of UAE
[March 17, 2007]
Qatar Airways Blues
[March 17, 2007]
Astonishing incompetence of Gulf Times journalists
[March 8, 2007]
Let's Connect!
[February 28, 2007]
New Sponsorship Rules
[February 27, 2007]
Am I the only one who thinks Al Jazeera English…. Well, sucks?
[February 20, 2007]
Welcome
[February 19, 2007]
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I’ve promised myself I’m not gonna ridicule in my blog The Company All Expats Love To Hate (read: QTEL). But I can’t help it…. They’re just too easy…
“Let’s Connect” – marketing slogan or shouts heard all over Qatar from people desperately trying to connect their supposedly all-time DSL connections!
Of course, I’m talking about last week’s 2-day outage. Both my home DSL and my office were out…. You would think they’ll apologize? Noooo, they issued some silly little press release blaming unidentified “vendor”.
QTEL – only company in the world that can charge (and overcharge) for the services they’re NOT providing… let’s see… I’m charged 400 QR/month for my (sometimes) 2Mbs at home…. So this month, two days being off, they’ll charge me 371.4 QR, Right? Right???. Ummm, no.
And don’t you just love when they issue their annual figures in Gulf Times boosting about phenomenal profits they’ve made? It’s kinda like sticking their finger in everyone’s eye and going na-na-na-na. Give ME an absolute monopoly over a vital service that everyone has to use and let me charge however much I want, and you’ll see how profitable I’ll make MY company!!!
And just one more thing:
Message to the creative genius who came up with those posters on the roundabouts saying “Internet – the Future of Business” and “Internet – the Future of Entertainment”…
Duuuuuuuuh!
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