Exactly. Qtel don't talk about the bandwidth crunch. They say how robust their network is, and that it's running at 100% capacity.
What they don't say is how their average bandwidth to commonly used sites compares with European or North American telcos. Or, how much customers are paying per kbps to any site they actually want to use.
Qatar's pipes to Europe are becoming more congested, and it's not going to get better for several years. Qtel can blame their customers for not defragmenting, or "misuse of peer-to-peer applications", but that's rubbish. People are using the internet how they want to.
Someone at Qtel needs a boot up their backside for a decade's worth of bad capacity planning that has led to the situation we are in.
In Europe, undersea cables are cut all the time with hardly any degradation in service. In Qatar, if any of the cables are damaged, Qtel have difficulties keeping Al Jazeera on the air. Shockingly awful is my verdict on Qtel's performance.
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Exactly. Qtel don't talk about the bandwidth crunch. They say how robust their network is, and that it's running at 100% capacity.
What they don't say is how their average bandwidth to commonly used sites compares with European or North American telcos. Or, how much customers are paying per kbps to any site they actually want to use.
Qatar's pipes to Europe are becoming more congested, and it's not going to get better for several years. Qtel can blame their customers for not defragmenting, or "misuse of peer-to-peer applications", but that's rubbish. People are using the internet how they want to.
Someone at Qtel needs a boot up their backside for a decade's worth of bad capacity planning that has led to the situation we are in.
In Europe, undersea cables are cut all the time with hardly any degradation in service. In Qatar, if any of the cables are damaged, Qtel have difficulties keeping Al Jazeera on the air. Shockingly awful is my verdict on Qtel's performance.