I see a pattern here. STC‘s newest ad makes fun of Mobily‘s Broadband @ home slow Internet speed. The ad is a parody of a Mobily ad (which I will post once I find it) where a guy wears goggles to face the “speed” of the Internet connection by Mobily. Quick translation: (preparing to download
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A new STC ad makes fun of Mobily’s slowness
New Mobily ad takes a shot at STC’s slowness
Mobily attacks their biggest competitor, STC with their latest ad starring Saudi actor Youssef Al Jarrah “يوسف الجراح”. Here’s the ad (Arabic video) and and English translation: Here’s the translation: left: (talking to his new born child). right: congratulations, what will you name him? left: Nawaf (Neefo as a nickname) Oh yeah you reminded me
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STC and Mobily ad wars (part 2)
The ad war between the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Mobily continues. After STC’s response to Mobily. Mobily has aired the following ad on 9/9/2009. The Mobily employee warns against using inferior products shown by “their brothers”, meaning STC. In the end he said “beware of fake products”. CITC is being quiet about it. But
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Hilter and STC in a Saudi newspaper
Alwatan newspaper in Saudi Arabia has mentioned the Hilter and STC video. The article titled “هتلر والاتصالات السعودية ” talked about STC’s bad service, check the comments too (all in Arabic). The video clip was watched almost 400 thousand times (not counting the download mirrors).
STC issues 35,000SR bill by mistake (updated)
STC continues to fail with their billing system, a good friend of mine now got an STC mobile phone bill for over 35,000SR and his account should be limited to a maximum of 400SR credit. So STC’s billing system over charged him and ignored their own credit restrictions! Update: my friend called STC phone support
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Saudi Telecom (STC) and Mobily ad wars
The eternal feud between the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Mobily will never end apparently. Starting this Ramadan Mobily has aired some ads showing their Mobily Broadband @ Home service. This ad shows a person installing a DSL land line, happily saying “they are finally installing the Internet”, he did not say “finally” but his
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STC is having problems with their billing system
Hopefully it’s not a huge problem. But many people are reporting that their STC bills are inaccurate. That’s due to the fact that STC is upgrading their ancient billing system and with that upgrade they will start releasing bills by the end of this month. The initial rumors were that STC has lost the customer
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Hitler can’t get STC DSL (with English translation)
Even Hilter is angry at the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and their crappy DSL service! He could only get 512kbps DSL to his house. Watch the video (Arabic subtitles): Youtube video removed, it was posted here. I understand his frustration with STC! If anyone wants an English transcript I am willing to translate. Just ask.
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Feedburner down for STC Afaq DSL subscribers
Feedburner, one of the leading RSS feed providers is experiencing some problems with Saudi Arabia users. Almost all of the podcasts on the Internet are using feedburner’s services. But now when you try to load a feed you will get the following error “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”. This error usually happens when a server is down.
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All you need to know about Gitex Saudi Arabia 2009
Riyadh Exhibitions Company has finally updated their website just in time for Gitex Saudi Arabia 2009 in Riyadh. Probably not the best design but it is an improvement over the old one. As usual it’s mainly a shopping exhibition: Gitex Saudi Arabia 2009 and Gitex Saudi Arabia Computer Shopper 2009. I am not looking forward
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