So Fed Up of Focus Infocom!!!
Grrrr... almost 2 bloody days of dropping my connection and not being able to connect!!!!
this happens every bloody month.. : i wanted focus coz i didnt want to be limted by download limits.......this is even worse... not having connectivity...
what happens when i call up customer service?... "we'll get one of our technicans to call back!"... do they? heck they dont!!! why not? i donno prolly coz i'm a low profile individual who is not worthy of having their problems attended to??? an anyways the problem fixes itself in a day or two anyways.. wat does an individual lose right???!!!
frankly i'm fed up of this.. this is what happened at office too... altho i must say they were quicker to attend to the office problems.... they would i guess coz office was paying them over 7000 rufiya a month and me the unimportant individual is payin only 650 per month for a measly 64k line.. ( not even close to that )
well office changed over to dhiraagu and we've never been happier... i prolly should do too... the ADSL starter might be enuf as a subsitute and prolly enuf bandwith too... seeing that i dont get to download from this connection anyways!!!
seriously if anyone from focus infocom reads this i suggest u put this issue to your customer services dept.. or watever dept it should go to...
if u don't provide proper services to the individual.. you are gonna lose out... in the end they are also making decisions for companies and your other big clients...
:@ :@ :@ i don't like being offline!!!
Comming Up!!! Wataniya Mobile Tested
Comming over this weekend.. wataniya mobile services being tested and compared against dhiraagu's.....
from gettin my number to well... :) come back an see
PhotoSquid
Jus thought i would start up a PhotoBlog.... nothin too fancy... jus a few photos i've taken an am takin over the years...
anyways the addy is http://photosquid.blogspot.com
enjoy
ahem ahem!
theres nothing unusual when poeple try to please their boss or their seniors.. same applies for wataniya. The have started handing out free numbers to TOP government officials in Maldives. They are given the same number which they use from Dhiraagu and the juicy part is that its all for free!!! no need to pay the bil.. make all the calls you can... be on an international call for a month and you still need not pay the bill... not bad eh? wish the public got offers like that?
WOW show by wataniya!!!
While squid here was sitting at home watching the telly, me and azim were down where all the action was... here's wat we thought of the show in a nutshell,
the first act was alrite with unoosha singing an all.... kinda set the pace for the show..
then nikil came up an he was... well... not too bad.. but not wat was expecting i guess..
the laser show was not exactly spectacular as squid said... but its a lot better when u see it for real than seeing it on TV... so i have to say it was kinda good.. but i saw no point in repeating the same show twice...
but i must say... i wasnt at all impressed with the dances by theater mirage... maybe i dont have the "artistic" taste to properly grasp the concept.. but... still i dint like it...
sultans were a disappointment too... i mean its nothing wrong with the music... jus was a mood killer..... plus what was that abt "dhivehi rahyithunah genesdhey lava" and performing 'get up, stand up' ... doh!!! please do u have to bring that in.....
mezzo... hmm mezzo was alrite i think... i donno cant say too much coz i found myself having a coffee before the show was over....
i do have one question tho.. where is all the fireworks that was mentioned on the leaflets an the posters an the billboards?.... did someone forget? or was it jus a few crackers... or stink bombs maybe?
all in all.. the show was a good move by wataniya.. in terms of marketing... but the show itself was jus.... Mediocre.. nothing you'd wanna talk about in a few weeks time...
above: the stage not a bad setup actually
Above: the laser Show
Above and below: the Crowds... quite a lot actually
Dhiraagu Sponsors Wataniya "WoW" show on TV!
I was just sitting in my room watching the "WOW" show by Wataniya and suddenly there was this small commercial break and what do i see!!! a Sponsored by Dhiraagu advertisement... how could it be.. well its not that hard to understand the whole situation...
The "WOW" show was being telecasted live on TVM on a programme called "Navaranna" and the programme was sponsored by Dhiraagu...but the thought of Dhiraagu sponsoring the Wataniya event was fun.. hehe
anyway, for those of you enjoying the show, please enjoy it.. i watched the show for sometime.. nothign interesting for me... the laser show was.. eerm.. well NORMAL is all i can say.. the music played is stupid and totally absurd and yeah last but not least, the one and only Nikhil... yeah whats so special abt him... he was good with the audience but he kept fantasizing Pamela Anderson for abt 5 mins and the word "boobs" just would not come out of his mouth no matter how hard he tried.. so enjoy.. im off to bed!
Entertainment Guide and telcos!!!
one of the most popular advertising medium these days in maldives is the entertainment guide... the cable guide for maldives.... which is of coz due to the fact almost every home in male will have a copy an will keep the same copy for a month at least without throwing it out... works better than inserts in newspapers.... and ads in them as well... ppl refer to it often so expousre in increased......
anyways... im not here to talk abt the EG.... but i refer to the august edition of Entertainment guide weekely to highlight somethin really interesting.... now the way advertising in the EG works is that u can book ur page or place for advertisments for months in advance.... and well dhiraagu has appearantly done so on the front cover flap...which is one of the most effective advertising areas as well its seen by all... even when u dont open it...
now wats so intersting abt all this.... well since dhiraagu has (probably) booked the front cover flap for the next eternity it wouldnt be easy to get that spot now would it? good move by dhiraagu...
enter wataniya... well they cant book the front cover now can they?... wat do they do...? hehe this is where it gets hilarious... they make a over for the whole bloody guide... like a slide in envelope... an presto... dissaprears dhiraagu and they have the whole bloody cover area... front an back..... brilliant!!! refer to pics below....!!! dirty.. yes.. but nonetheless brilliant move..... its not like dhiraagu plays nice either ( i refer to the image change which is still fresh in memory )....
well true.. the cover envelope might be thrown away.. but i guess wataniya is making a point here... which is?... i havent a clue hehe...
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Same Perspective on Dhiraagu Logo [a tribute]
I have come across some more articles regarding the new dhiraagu logo which i thought i would just add up here ....
INN's Blog
http://www.leptone.com/blogs/inn/archives/2005/06/dhiraagu.html
RXS Blog
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14200297&postID=112227084487486947
Stick with Dhiraagu
With Wataniyya starting their work and Dhiraagu reducing their prices to an all time low, there has been great hype on who is better?should i shift to wataniyya or not.. well im a Dhiraagu post paid user and i do not plan to switch to wataniyya YET! (unless there is no other way i would, but highly unlikely :)
First of all, the problem with dhiraagu currently is not the price, to be honest dhiraagu prices are much lower than wataniyyaa .The problem is that their servers are gettign congusted and they cant accomodate the increasing number of customers without a downfall in their service... yeah at times i myself run into the problems of all circuits are being used...
but here is the juicy part and the reason which i would not be shifting to wattaniyyaa( and still i stress on "YET"!)
lets assume that in the next 6 months time, 20% of the mobile phone users of maldives would be shifting to wataniyya.
Statistics at the end of 2004 show that there are 113,246 mobile phone users in Maldives, of which 16,374 are post paid and 96,872 are pre paid.
( http://www.tam.gov.mv/articles.php?artID=39 )
so when the 20% of the poeple shift to wataniyya, what happens to dhiraagu? simple, the 80% of the remaining customers will be able to get better services. there is no more congustion and no more "allcircuits are busy" .. as wataniyya says "you can get through the first time" ...
ok, wataniyyaa may provide G3 in male' , they may provide conferencing as a free service and also provide PTT , but do u think dhiraagu is gonna just sit their and just wait .. i believe anyone who knows dhiraagu would know that thats the LAST thing dhiraagu would do :) they are cannibals, all these yrs they fed on the flesh of us, but i believe they have competition now so they would be feeding on wataniyya or anyone else who comes in their way from now on.. so we r free and we will get better service ..
