rolf wroteDid it again, with this result...
[url]http://www.speedtest.net/result/448885369.png[/url]
Go figure... anyway bottom line is lebanon has average download of 0.5, which is lower then the average download of AFRICA...
and lower then syria if you go through detailed stats...
South america average is 1.6... asia is 3.6...
So, I need to get out of this country and go somewhere more developed.
Rolf, once you quit, it becomes a habit. Do not think that what we have here in Bulgaria has been given to us
from the skies above or stuff. From 1996 till 2002th we had exactly (well, almost) the same situation as you face now in Lebanon. It was SHIT and CRAP. The telecom was 100% owned by the state and they abused their
monopoly badly. The IT community suffered badly out of it, we were screaming in desperation.
But people chose to fight and protest in many ways:
* public protests (both live and on the Internet). We contacted many outside companies, newspapers and TVs
to report our desperate situation. The government lost their respect outside. Even embassies showed their
support.
* attacking and sabotaging the telecom in all possible ways (call it terrorism and you will be right)
* The IT community started to put pressure on the politics and demanded their place and "voice"
* The IT community entered politics and kept putting pressure.
Finally the government understood - they can't win this war. They can't put all people in prisons, they can't
come up with new lies every month, they can't afford to luxury to be attacked in the local and international press
all the time, they can't afford the psycho stress to give explanations and sneak away off the problems and stuff.
Trust me, no one likes to see his name being spitted on the newspapers, on the e-mails, on the web, on the TV every single week. No one can sustain such stress.
Every politician understood - should he make the IT community angry, they will paint his life black.
Internet is really a heavy sword.
One morning, the government "woke up", opened their eyes and saw the real situation - they are alone against
everyone.
Finally they said: freedom for the ISPs, do whatever you want - place wireless, place cables, bring Internet from
outside in any way (satellite, wireless, even fiber though to place international fiber links was a not an easy task).
3 years our ISP market was boosting without any regulations. Then the government made a team whose members
where elected from the top ISPs in order to apply some regulations. But these regulations were written by
techs in order to improve and stabilize the situation, not to harm it.
Of course every battle takes its "death toll", but this is not a reason to quit.
