vengeance666 wrotethe guy has a point , if we lebanese just keep saying " what the hell can we do " and just complain all day long , we'll get nothing , if you want something you have to fight for it , like he said stop working for a day etcc , and in lebanon we have lots and lots of fighting to do
While I do agree that we should keep the thread centered around its original subject which is "Broadband in Lebanon" I would like to add one comment (just this post).
Chup has a point... when the people / sha3eb makes the right move on a massive scale with a big percentage of the population asking for the same thing... it becomes hard for anyone to resist.
Iza al sha3bou yawman arada el 7ayat fala boudda an yastajibou al kadar. I hope you all know this wasn't just some corny poetry most of us learned back in school.
But a movement/strike (or whatever you want to call it) like this still needs one thing to be effective: Unity of the people. All people acting as one together.
Now back to the thread topic. If the Lebanese people were more demanding of the services they get... like the Internet then we would probably get what we want much sooner. We would enjoy a decent Internet connection that is stable, affordable and offers acceptable speeds compared to other countries surrounding us in the region.
For example, if lots and lots of people actually took the time to constantly email and call ISPs asking and insisting they get the service they are paying for (and not some lousy connection that is shared with 1000 other users) then the ISPs would start fearing the fact that they can lose their customers.
But what do most people in Lebanon want from an Internet connection ? Most likely they want to be able to check their mail, surf the Facebook website and chat on MSN. Let's face it, the percentage of gamers who need to be picky about disconnection and ping time is still not that large.
When I answered the tech support at Sodetel (and this goes for any other ISP as I personally have nothing against Sodetel... they just happen to be my current ISP) that a good connection should not even give a single "Request Timed Out" when pinging a working web address they just stopped replying to my emails.
They must have realized I wasn't buying any of the standard bull**** they feed their customers on a daily basis.
Other typical bull**** answers would be:
- "Sir please make sure your firewall is not interefering with your connection."
- "Sorry we have no problem... are you sure your computer is not infected with a virus ?"
- "You are the only customer who called to complain about the quality of the connection."
Yes the power is with the people. People pay money to the ISPs and the ISPs pay money to the Government. When people stop paying... the entire chain is broken and everything stops and both the ISPs and the Governement would have to sit down and listen to our demands concerning having some decent technology in this country.
