{"id":710,"date":"2011-07-17T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=710"},"modified":"2011-07-17T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T14:28:11","slug":"kuwait-internet-cap-or-why-it-is-not-as-innocent-as-it-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Internet Cap , or Why it is not as innocent as it looks"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you wondering what the Cap , then you should check Q8Cap<\/a> Site to tell you better about it<\/p>\n

Now I Believe that The current Hike in prices is an agreed on thing not only between ISP , but between ISP and The Ministry of Communication
\nWhy you may ask ?<\/p>\n

Because Back in 2007 , the MOC raised the price of Cable Usage for the ISP , 4 years ago , yet internet Subscription prices went down year after year
\nnow The ISP raised the prices , and the reason most of them gave was the MOC prices<\/p>\n

Ask your self this , if the problem was the price increase , why wait from 2007 till now to raise the price ? why did it go down in the first place in 2007 , 2008 , 2009 ?<\/p>\n

Also Another Thing that the Companies keep on saying
\nThey say we can’t do anything to MOC , really we going that way ?
\nlets take one of the companies as an example<\/p>\n

QualityNet<\/p>\n

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What names on the company as partners ?<\/p>\n

Khalid Ali Alghanim ( Listed as General Manager )
\n( son of the Head of the Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce )
\nShiekah AlBahar ( Listed as a Partner )
\n( CEO of National Bank of Kuwait )
\nMarzouq AlGhanim ( Listed as a Partner )
\n( Parliament Member for over 3 terms ) <\/p>\n

among others <\/p>\n

Clearly the company isn’t run by unknown people , or immigrants
\nso when they say they can’t talk to the Minister they are just making up excuses <\/p>\n

When the companies say they don’t have a voice , they are also thinking that we are dumb or forget
\nBack in August 1999 , AlRai newspaper ran a big campaign to expose the MOC as corrupt , because KEMS was getting favors Qualitynet and Fasttelco didn’t get back then<\/p>\n

that campaign ended with the Under-Secretary back then , out of the ministry !
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now we have established two thing<\/p>\n

1- The companies aren’t weak
\n2- They don’t lack the voice<\/p>\n

Now you need to ask your self , why are they doing this now ?<\/p>\n

The Right answer In my opinion is because its an agreement between them and MOC , they pressure US the USERS , we pressure the MOC , the MOC reduce the Prices ( set in 2007 ) and they all win<\/p>\n

If you ask why they do that and not just get the MOC to reduce the price , You forgot Kuwait politics , The MOC want something to defend it self , because if they reduce the price because the companies asked , they will face a backlash from parliament members , but now they can claim it was the people that demanded it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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