| Emirates Telecommunication Establishment Etisalat |
 | | Type | Public | | Founded | United Arab Emirates Government | | Headquarters | Abu Dhabi,
 United Arab Emirates | | Key people | Mohammed Hassan Omran Chairman, Mohammed Al Qamzi CEO | Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, also known as Etisalat (former Emirtel), is the incumbent telecommunications carrier and Internet Service Provider in the United Arab Emirates. Etisalat provides all types of telecom services in addition to cable TV service. Etisalat is currently moving to a 3G network with 97% of the UAE covered with 3g and NGN concept in its infrastructure. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Etisalat, which has 33 million subscribers in 14 countries, has made acquisitions and investments in excess of Dh30 billion in expanding international operations.
The UAE-based operator operates in Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Gabon, Niger, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Pakistan, and the U.A.E.
Etisalat was the sole telecommunications service provider in the UAE from 1976 until the arrival of Du (telco) in February 2007. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
Etisalat stands 140th among the Financial Times Top 500 Corporations in the world in terms of market capitalization, and is ranked by The Middle East magazine as the 6th largest company in the Middle East in terms of capitalization and revenues. The Corporation is the largest contributor outside the oil sector to development programmes of the UAE Federal Government. Etisalat has also won accolades from across the region for its nationalization programme. [citation needed]
Currently Etisalat must pay 50% of its profits to the government as a royalty fee; there is speculation this may be reduced to 40% in the near future[1].
According to WAM (official news agency of the United Arab Emirates[citation needed]), "At the end of September 2005, the number of lines in service are 1,222,905 for telephone, 4,305,821 for mobile and 4,698,17 for internet. Mobile penetration now exceeds 95 per cent."
Recently eCompany/Etisalat incorporated iZone, a system of WiFi hotspots in central locations, such as shopping malls, restaurants, and shisha cafes. iZone can be utilized by either purchasing prepaid cards, which offer 15 AED/hour access rates (about 4.5 USD an hour), or if they are a dial-up internet user, they can use their previous existing account and pay 3 AED an hour (less than one USD per hour), or if they are a broadband user, they can use their account and gain access for 6 AED an hour (about 2.5 USD an hour). For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see mall. ...
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On May 24th 2006, Etisalat officially released its new corporate logo.
On July 4th, 2006, a consortium led by Etisalat won the rights to develop Egypt's third mobile network, with a winning bid of 16.7 billion Egyptian Pounds (2.29 billion Euro)[2]. The new venture, Etisalat Egypt, will compete with existing service providers Vodafone and Mobinil. On September 12, 2006, it was announced that the network will be built by Ericsson of Sweden, and Huawei of China, at a cost of approximately 1.2 billion US dollars[3]. Etisalat logo Etisalat Misr (Etisalat Egypt) - Egypt’s First 3. ...
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Etisalat is on an expansion spree. After making its presence felt in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and West Africa, Etisalat is prepared to pay up to $3 billion to bid for state-run Algerie Telecom. Western Africa (UN subregion) Maghreb[1] West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ...
Algeria is expected to announce details on a partial privatization of Algerie Telecom by March 2007. The Abu Dhabi-based firm has been expanding aggressively abroad as it has lost a virtual monopoly in the UAE to Dubai-based Du, which aims to gain 30% of the UAE market share. This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
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eCompany Although owned by Etisalat,"eCompany" (formally Emirates Internet & Multimedia), provides the Internet for the majority in the United Arab Emirates.
For home users, eCompany provides dial-up connection, ISDN connection, and cable and DSL connection. The Cable and DSL connections are known as "Al Shamil". Al Shamil offers speeds from 256K up to 2Mb. DSL may refer to: Damn Small Linux Dark and Shattered Lands, a MUD based loosely on Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance books. ...
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eCompany was the sole Internet service provider of the United Arab Emirates, but temporarily a second ISP, Sahm Net, which was unaffected by eCompany's censorship, operated in certain new housing developments and Dubai Media City and Dubai Internet City. Sahm was acquired by DIC (Dubai Internet City), and subsequently became part of du, although as of late May 2007 they were still free of the UAE's proxy. “ISP†redirects here. ...
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The dial-up and ISDN connections are billed by the hour, whereas the Domestic/Residential Cable and DSL connections have a fixed monthly rate depending on speed, whereas Business connections are quite legendary for being billed depending on the amount of users and the usage of the connection. In telecommunication, the term dial-up has the following meanings: Dial-up access, typically to the Internet A service feature in which a user initiates service on a previously arranged trunk or transfers, without human intervention, from an active trunk to a standby trunk. ...
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Please improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (October 2007) | Etisalat has blocked thousands of websites on the web due to various reasons; the statement on the "ban screen" states that websites may be banned due to their content contravening the religious, cultural, political, and moral values of the United Arab Emirates. These websites include: Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
- Pornography
- The entire Israel TLD (.il)
- Certain social-networking websites (such as Orkut, Multiply, last.fm etc.)
- Certain media-sharing websites (such as flickr, and user pages on YouTube)
- Anti-Islamic websites
- Certain websites which cover aspects of the United Arab Emirates in a critical manner such as uaeprison.com, hetq.am and arabtimes.com
- Anonymous proxy sites
- "Most" File-sharing sites (torrents etc.)
- Certain Homosexual websites (such as Gaydar, Mogenic etc.)
To many people, there is no understandable reason to block some websites as there are no reasons given. Based upon the directions of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the United Arab Emirates, Etisalat blocks some websites, such as VoIP. Skype is one such service blocked by Etisalat. Many see this action as a move to protect the profits of the telecommunications industry. Etisalat's "we'll do whatever we want" attitude towards its customers is starting to annoy a lot of people and many of them are now looking at other alternatives to access the Internet. Etisalat has also been known to temporarily block earlier accessible torrent websites and throttling P2P in order to ease load on their servers. The effect of blocking is unclear, as sites are accessible to people using IP spoofing software and with some sites increasing the amount of visits from the UAE only after blocking. TLD is a three-letter acronym that may stand for: Top-level domain Tag Library Descriptor — an XML document that maps JSP tags to their handlers or associated files. ...
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Criticism Etisalat has been criticized for many reason over the past years. Some of the issues include: - Above average telephone charges, especially in the case of international calls (although this, as of recently, can be attributed to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority which prohibits price-wars between the UAE's telephone companies) although they have special offers that compensate for the not so high-price calls.
- Excessive delay in paying for PTCL, Pakistans national Telecommunications company which it bought. It got its contract renegotiated after the sale took place, which has been heavily crticized within the country.
- Proxy blocks websites usually through an automated system which is prone to mistakes; though, the company doesn't take long time to respond to questions and inquiries about the blocked websites.
- The nature of the routing Etisalat uses means many users go through a single IP address when accessing the internet, in cases of vandalism, this means many users can be banned due to a single users activities
- Blocking all Voice Over IP (VOIP) communication which allows users cheaper international calls such as SKYPE
- High speed service is about 1.3MB download, and 400KB upload.
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