Two cellphone SIM cards (bottom and top) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Did  you catch this one? I, for one, didn't I've missed i...

Image via Wikipedia Why does all the fun happen when I'm away? Woke up today to the news that the UAE is to block BlackBerry Messenger, ...

It would appear that the UAE's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Or TRA to you an' me) has blocked YouTube's age verific...

Image via Wikipedia So Etisalat and Du have put their heads together and decided to block the evil BlackBerries. From this day on, no longer...

Image via Wikipedia ‘Dark side of Dubai’ journalist Johann Hari made much of the reaction to his article in The Independent when he put up a...

Image by Fenchurch! via Flickr A wee while ago I posted a grumpy response to the campaign being run by the UAE’s second favourite telco, D...

How smart are you? An idle click on a new Twitter follower message as I contemplated the second coffee of the morning led me to this Tweet: ...

With the car in the shop and Al Habtoor getting ready to take a significant chunk out of me in return for the usual skimdisksreplacebrakepad...

Gulf News today carries, on page 41, a slightly strange advertisement for telco Du’s Unlimited Blackberry offer. The ad, which struck me as ...

A very grumpy little pair of pieces in today’s Gulf News : the ‘phone company that everyone loves to shout at, Etisalat, has released a new ...

Many years ago I had occasion to interview Andrew Hearn, then the boss of Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco to you, mate). He was ...

It struck me this morning how much this FLAG/SEA ME WE cable outage must be hurting our good friends over at Du Towers given that their netw...

I'm a little hesitant to post about Dubai's most splendid and admirable new telecom operator Du again, because last time I took a po...

So Du announced it has reached 850,000 subscribers this week. I do find that interesting in view of the continuing consistency of the result...

No posts over the weekend. Phone company Etisalat cut off our Internet for non payment. It's a long story. Needless to say the entire ep...

Maktoob Research, the research arm of Arabic portal Maktoob.com , has published a report citing that 74% of Etisalat customers are happy cam...

What, indeed, to Du? Go to www.du.com. It's a reasonably cool and very fast (the world's fastest, apparently) WHOIS lookup site (A W...