I have been with MTC for the past 10 years at least. I rarely had any problems with the company or the service, until recently!
Anyone who uses MTC these days must have noticed how shit the service has become! It started more than a month ago, when the network went down for a few hours. They said it was an error in the network and they gave everyone that Friday free supposedly. It has been a month since then and the network is still absolutely shit! I got more dropped calls and network problems in the past month than I did in my 10 years using MTC!
Everyone knows how MTC is expanding globally and they are entering more and more markets every day, and as Kuwaitis we are very proud of a local company turning international ….. but not if that means they forget about their local market which is now only a small portion of their total client base!!!
I have been threatening to switch to Wataniya for a while, and I think it will be done very soon, because the quality of service Im getting as an MTC customer is unacceptable! I have ben forced to make most calls more than once because of these network problems or whatever they are, and it has been going on for way too long!
I just wish our telecom companies here had the same option as the Saudi ones where you can keep the same number and switch! And since we mentioned Saudi telecom companies, why do they offer services that are alot more advanced than the basic stuff we have here?
اليوم اكتشفت سر نجاح القنوات الاخبارية مثل العربية و الجزيرة
كنت بديوانية و صدف مشغلين تلفزيون الكويت بوقت نشرة الاخبار
أول خبر … سمو الامير يستقبل سمو ولي العهد
الخبر الثاني … سمو الامير يولم نواب مجلس الامة
الخبر الثالث … الشيخ الفلاني يستقبل فلان
الخبر الرابع … الشيخ الفلاني يستقبل فلان
الخبر الخامس … الشيخ الفلاني يستقبل فلان
الخبر السادس … خخخخخخخخخـخـــخــــخ
ولا خبر يهم اي مشاهد او يأثر على حياة اي شخص …. مع هذا، تقريبا كل النشرة هالأخبار
كنا قبل نتطنز على نشرة أخبار السعودية من سالفة الاستقبالات و قام فلان و قعد فلان … بس الفرق بين النشرتين حاليا موسيقى بيتهوفن بالخلفية بالسعودية و بس
المهم … السؤال هو ليش؟؟؟
هل هو بروتوكول و كونه تلفزيون حكومي فواجب عليه نشر كل زيارة؟؟
أم السالفة مجاملات و ترزز و تمصلح؟
أنا متأكد مليون بالمية أن معظم الأشخاص اللي يطلعون بالأخبار ما يهتمون ولا يحتاجون هالتغطية … فليش الوزارة مستمرة بهالأسلوب الغريب و اللي يمشي أكثر مع النظام السوري أو العراقي سابقا … متى نتطور و نرتقي فوق هالتفاهات و المجاملات؟
سر نجاح القنوات الأخبارية بسيط … الناس تتوقع و تحصل على أخبار مهمة … أما أخبار تلفزيون الكويت صارت لمعرفة الوفيات فقط
Snickers always have their commercials on any channel with football, which means that I am often exposed to these ads.
Watch it -
When I first saw their latest ad, I thought it was cool and all but what does it have to do with Snickers … and then I saw their slogan “Don’t Stop” and remembered, and the ad jumped straight to become one of my favorite ads!
Then I found out from some friends that the music for the ad is by Army of One, a Kuwaiti rap group. The song is called Let’s Roll (sample) and it is from their new album, Hush.
What made me love this ad more than just the fact that it was a great ad was that it was -
Created by a local agency - Impact / BBDO, Dubai
Filmed in Saudi
The music used has been taken from a local band
I am not 100% about this, but apparently there is another US version made from the same ad, with the only difference being the music, where Limp Bizkit and Snoop Dogg replacing Army of One with their “Red Light Green Light” song. Watch it and be the judge as to which one you prefer….I personally like the Army of One ad, especially the end part, the music is alot more energetic and goes with the action!
Is it just me or does this news item make you sad?
Is the Avenues mall all we have to show off nowadays??
It’s nice and new, but its a mall …. just a shopping center with lots of starbucks cafes and clothing stores!! Why would government officials invite a visiting delegation, and our Prime Minister taking Bahrain’s Prime Minister to see how great our country is advancing by building another mall!!
If we built a state of the art hospital, I would understand and encourage taking them to visit it…..if it was a state of the art university, I would be proud too and would want others to see it!
Total value of market trades today - 1,822,603,760 KD
Total value of MTC trades today - 1,718,610,100 KD
Average daily value of market trades in the past 6 months is probably less than 100,000,000 KD.
Today, the value of the trades increased today by 1700%.
MTC’s trades made up 94.3% of the total value.
MTC’s market cap is -
number of issued stocks = 1,895,655,826 x 3.220 KD = 6,104,011,759 KD
value traded today = 1,718,610,100 KD
So ….. today, 28.2% of MTC’s stock has been traded!!
Everyone was hooked with whatever was happening with the stock market today, and the rumor mill started and hasn’t stopped since ….
Most rumors involved Al-Khorafi selling their share in MTC to GCC investors. Names such as Mohammed Bin Rashed and Tahnoon Bin Zayid have been mentioned, Saudi families and companies (MTC’s partners in the Saudi 3rd telecom licence) have been mentioned, and there is also a rumor that says that there has been no selling o a second party, but has been shifting of ownership within the owners’ own portfolio and companies.
The only official mention that came from MTC said -
11:35:23 ِ.اعلان
افاد السيد براك عبد المحسن الصبيح مدير عام شركة الاتصالات المتنقلة
في اتصال هاتفي بالسيد مدير عام السوق الساعة 11:15 صباحا بأن
الشركة ليس لديها اي معلومات او بيانات او اخبار لها صله بارقام
التداول القياسية لاسهم الشركة اليوم . وتقوم ادارة السوق حاليا
بالتدقيق في هذه الارقام
Translated roughly, that says that the PR department at MTC called the stock market and said .. “uuuhh….no clue man!” and that the stock market is investigating the issue!
So many questions….sooooo many!! No answers yet! Soon enough everything will be clear….but whatever the result is, I hpoe MTC or others can learn how loose everything can go and how far rumors will spread if it isn’t planned right or prepared for just in case!
Great website for all you cookie lovers out there …
Simple, easy recipes to make cookies that are really REALLY excellent!!
My wife recommended the website to me, and to be honest I tried the cookies (the double peanut butter) from the person who created them, and they kick ass! Better than what you would find anywhere else!
موضوع وقف برنامج الدكتور شفيق الغبرا “ديوانية الأسبوع” أثار ضجة إعلامية خفيفة بالصحافة و بالمدونات. بو راكان كعادته تبنى القضية و سلط الضوء على قرار الوقف و كتب أكثر من مقال يتطرق للموضوع (حرب الهمج من الداخل) و زيدون في مدونته أيضا كتب عن الموضوع
أمس و اليوم أكثر من شخص قاللي أنه شاف دعاية البرنامج و أن سيبث هذا الإسبوع يوم الأثنين
مع كل احترامي للجهود و للبرنامج نفسه لكن البرنامج جديد و جمهوره جدا محدود مع أنه يقدم مستوى و مواضيع ممتازة
كان قرار منع البرنامج اللي أتى بوقت الوزير السابق قرار غبي .. أو ساذج لأكون أكثر دقة. أتوقع عدد المشاهدين الحلقة القادمة أكثر من أي وقت مضى بسبب القرار و الحملة الإعلامية اللي أتت مع القرار … و الأهم أن المشاهدين سيزيدون بالحلقة اللي كانوا يريدون منعها خوفا من أن تكثر شعبية و قراء المدونات
Friday night, from 9 - 11, you have the best music on FM 99.7! Listening to it right now made me want to say it again!
DJ Maha hosts this show weekly, and the description from the 99.7 website (which sucks) -
Bringing you the laid back hybrid of techno and jazz The Late Night Lounge is a one hour special show featuring the best of world fusion, chillout, chillhouse, ambient house, acid jazz, ambient break beats and more!!! It’s a live show on Monday nights from 10 – 11 PM. Described as “pretty good tempo” without being ” too clubby”.
The website hasn’t been updated in ages, they still have the song Toxic as top 10, so Im guessing the timing of the show changed too.
The best thing about the show is that you probably never heard of any of the songs! No mainstream stuff, no pop, no rap or R&B, none of that everyday crap! Its 2 hours of relaxation and admiration of the Dj’s choice of music!
Don’t miss it next Friday. I know I should’ve mentioned it yesterday or something, but its on now and I had to post about it.
After a relationship that has gone for almost 10 yrs, it seems that my TV relationship with ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ will come to a sad end! I have been a fan for at least 10 years, and even if I don’t watch an episode, knowing that it is there is a comfort factor to some extent!
For some reason I can’t seem to find Late Night on the new showtime settings!! I don’t know what significant changes were made with the whole new channels things, but for me, I lost Conan! Thats all I know, and I am not happy at all!!
Did Showtime kill off the show with their new lineup??
I saw Conan on one of the ads for the new ShowtimeComedy, but I am yet to find the show, and looking at their website and programs listed, there is no mention of Conan
I saw that David Letterman is still on, which I don’t mind, but no mention of either Conan or Jay Leno’s shows!
I really hope Conan’s show is still on at some time that I haven’t discovered yet, or at least a different channel! Please advise me if you know anything about this….Im desperate!! I think I will have to resort to downloading his shows using torrents!
More info on Conan - interesting read by the way, the guy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, was a writer for SNL, the Simpsons, among other things before this show.
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Please email them at feedback@showtimearabia.com if you’re a fan of either Conan or Jay and ask for them to put them back on!!
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