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FASTEST AROUND: du says its new broadband speeds are the fastest in the Middle East.
UAE telecom operator du has doubled the speed of its broadband internet services, claiming to offer the fastest in the Middle East.
The new broadband speeds of up to 24 Mbps will be available to all du customers who use the company's home services.
The company said the new broadband packages were useful to meet high-bandwidth requirements such as online gaming, streaming audio and video, high volume data downloads.
Related: du posts Q1 profit of $12.8m
Farid Faraidooni, EVP commercial, du, said: “In an increasingly digitally convergent world, availability of high internet bandwidth is a primary need and with our new broadband packages we are offering more choice, greater value and an unmatched user experience for our home services customers.”
The telco has also changed its pricing structure so customers now get double the speed for the same price.
For example, 4 Mbps subscribers will now get 8 Mbps speeds at the same earlier price of AED449 per month, 8 Mbps subscribers will get 16 Mbps at a lower price of AED549 per month, and 12 Mbps broadband customers will be upgraded to 24 Mbps at the same earlier price of AED749 per month.
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Du Broadband prices
Posted by M Blackwell, Dubai, UAE on Thursday 11 June 2009 at 14:19 UAE time
They think this is good? In most western countries you could buy your own receiver for this money! Still FAR too expensive for most of us mere mortals on ordinary salaries. Still I suppose I shouldn't moan because at least the cost isn't going up 50%, like some maintenance fees from Emaar!!
Posted by M Blackwell, Dubai, UAE on Thursday 11 June 2009 at 14:19 UAE time
They think this is good? In most western countries you could buy your own receiver for this money! Still FAR too expensive for most of us mere mortals on ordinary salaries. Still I suppose I shouldn't moan because at least the cost isn't going up 50%, like some maintenance fees from Emaar!!
BUSINESS PACKAGES
Posted by Mr. Dis Grunted, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Thursday 11 June 2009 at 13:57 UAE time
What about the packages for Businesses? Is there an upgrade for those lines too?
The biggest problem with du lines for businesses is tha fact that data transfers are limited and due to very poor protection by du, many customers are having to pay huge internet bills (for data not used by them) !! This has been admitted by du in many cases, but no permanent solution is given yet.
They need to stop all the unwanted data within their network first and give an unlimited usage package to business clientss, otherwise more and more customers will move to use Etisalat's 3.5G solution !!
Posted by Mr. Dis Grunted, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Thursday 11 June 2009 at 13:57 UAE time
What about the packages for Businesses? Is there an upgrade for those lines too?
The biggest problem with du lines for businesses is tha fact that data transfers are limited and due to very poor protection by du, many customers are having to pay huge internet bills (for data not used by them) !! This has been admitted by du in many cases, but no permanent solution is given yet.
They need to stop all the unwanted data within their network first and give an unlimited usage package to business clientss, otherwise more and more customers will move to use Etisalat's 3.5G solution !!
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