Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Kuwait's Evil Greedy ISPs Bandwidth Caps.

SCENARIO:

You are driving on your cool Porsche (Not my old Camry) down the high speed road, flooring it and gas guzzling like nobody's business. Who could blame you, after all you paid for your car and gas.

Suddenly! A cop comes zooming by, sirens wailing. "PULLOVER A-HOLE! You have exceeded your daily mile limit!"

You weren't speeding, just driving by your legal speed, but the cop thought you drove too many miles this day. Now you have to return home driving only on a speed of 10 km/h.

Feels strange, no?

SCENARIO:

You are on a Hellish trip from Kuwait to the United States; a grueling god-knows-how-many hours long trip in a small uncomfortable chair. The aircraft's passenger limit is 200 passengers. You have paid for the ticket to get a chair in the aircraft, naturally.

Suddenly the airline company stuffs 100 more people in the flight for a total of 300 passengers, while the airline capacity is only 200. Now the airline company tells you to sit on your paid chair for only 5 hours, then leave the next 5 hours for the new passenger, while you sit on the ground or go to the toilet to take a huge unearthly dump.

Sounds strange, no?

SCENARIO:

You are talking on the phone at night, suddenly the mobile carrier shuts you off (although your bills are paid) telling you that you talked too much on the phone. You think "WTF?"
Sounds strange, no?

The truth is: It's not strange at all. It's exactly what the greedy evil ISPs in Kuwait are doing. They are not capable of handling many new customers fairly because of their old archaic architecture (they don't even secure their smtp servers, haha) and they are too cheap to pay the ministry of the not-changing bandwidth prices (although the ISPs raised their prices); so those companies started to rape customers even more now by illegally violating the unlimited contracts and introducing very unfair bandwidth limits.