Last week my ISP kept calling me everyday to try to persuade me to re-new my yearly subscription, they offered me 2 Mbps for 2 years for KD128, this is great but I felt something’s not right. Yesterday I read that ADSL Internet prices in Kuwait will drop by 40% starting next week, this explains everything!
Ministry of Comm. stated that after they conducted a study, they found that Internet prices need to be further reduced, great! I tried to call the local ISPs (KEMS, QualityNet, Fasttelco, GulfNet) to ask about the new prices but they all said that I have to wait till Sunday, but the 1Mbps will be around KD50 per year. So my advice for you is to wait before you decide to renew your subscription.
I will update you with the new prices, stay tuned.
Well this is great news. Can u tell me which ISP offered you 2 mbps for 2 years at 128kd? btw 40 percent drop will be on yearly charges or monthly?
IF ONLY ZAIN STOPS CAPPING TOO!!!
I don’t know should i be optimistic or not. But this might bring new problems to the field, maybe new capping methods or other stuff we aren’t aware off. also the price dropping will affect the ISP’s themselves and they might start cutting cost by firing employees. It’s just an opinion
although I’m with the price dropping, my subscription will end soon so i guess after the drop i will renew :P.
Same here
Good news
I just renewed for a year last week (facepalm)
All my friends had the same thing, I’m still awaiting their new reduced prices to be announced officially, hopefully today or early tomorrow.
Now if they could only make it so i could have more than 2mbps o. A wires line
kuwait needs to catch up with the times, in my opinion 1-2MBps internet speeds are way to slow in our day now. In Switzerland the minimum intenert speed is 10mbps for a fraction of the prices offered in kuwait. As well in singapore it is the same thing 10mbps for 15kd per month and no caps!!
you can also pay double the prices and they will provide you with your choice of PCs or Laptops for a yearly contract ( 15kd for a 10mbps connection/ 15kd for a brand new macbook).
what do you think guys ?
We could have phone lines and internet lines made from diamonds if we wanted. But that’s the problem, not much care and effort is going to the internet or any other project in Kuwait for that matter.
Which is why we see delayed projects, late to unfulfilled promises and very late improvements. Basically, when things go VERY wrong then effort is put in fastly. If only that effort and care go to things before they go wrong, we would have been much advanced then that we are right now.
Alas, we could only sit and hope that sooner rather than later the higher people start moving faster, putting more care, effort and slash off projects left and right by making them.
Well to be honest my internet connection was at its end last week and I had absolutely no choice but renew it. I’m glad they’re finally dropping the prices of the internet which should have been done AGES ago. Nope that’s not gonna happen. Kuwait loves to keep things delayed and when things reaches its peak all of the sudden they VAMOOOS quickly. This kind of tactic really pisses me off. I hope someday it would backfire.
I agree with you bro, our blog visitor “Tuan” has called the ISPs today and they said the new reduced prices will be announced today or tomorrow, let’s hope they stick to that. Will keep you updated.
will WIMD lower their prices too?
I confirmed it, they said the new prices shall be announced today or tomorrow
Thanks for the confirmation, I will post the prices once I get them, cheers
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