(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I know quite a bit about telcos. Back in 1991, strangely enough as allied forces started the air and gro...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The UAE's 'incumbent' telco, Etisalat, has managed to neatly underline quite how fearful it is o...

Hornjoserbsce: A sim card (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gulf News today carries a Great Pronouncement Of Doom from UAE telecom provider...

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

English: Etisalat Tower in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) We pay about double what consumers in, s...

Gulf News filed a Reuters report today on moves to improve Lebanon's internet access. The headline alone made me laugh, "Leban...

Image via Wikipedia The HTC Desire is a cool device, I have to tell you. It does many things brilliantly, some very well and even manages to...

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...

  http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg It’s been like spending a week trying to pogo in...

You can only imagine the joy deep in my  black heart this morning when I received an email from the telco that everyone who's not a Du ...

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 CrunchBase Etisalat has blocked Corbis, the photo library owned by one William Gates III Jnr. A major site used by millions of cre...

Image by netzkobold via Flickr UAE telco Etisalat yesterday unveiled the new 'HTC Magic' smartphone, a device based on Google's...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Thanks to my decision to start using some of the more advanced features of the *ahem* Nokia Platform, I...

This might be my shortest blog post ever. Here. Read this . It's Etisalat giving its side of the BlackBerry story. See if it makes you a...

Image via CrunchBase "Recently an update may have been provided to you by Etisalat for your BlackBerry Handheld via a WAP push. The Eti...

Image by Loutron Glouton via Flickr Respected security analysts and consultancies have now confirmed what many industry watchers, pundits a...

Etisalat BlackBerry Software Upgrade Aims to Enhance Performance of Devices and Facilitate Handover from 3G to 2G Networks Abu Dhabi 15 July...

Image via Wikipedia The Etisalat BlackBerry update story has started to grow little legs now, with the coverage from Gulf News and ITP.net...