The Definition of Cheepskates

How idiotic do you have to be in order to realize that there is an unfair advantage between rivals in the same indistry? My personal opinion: you'd have to be really dumb.

Oman Mobile is a subsiadary of OmanTel no matter how many people try to explain to me that the first is a private-owned company while the latter isn't. How is it that Oman Mobile was formed? It was the mobile devision of OmanTel for all those dimwits that don't understand. No matter how much you may have invested into the company during the IPO, it still doesn't mean that it's a company that the government has a bigger say in, because that's just how it is.

Oman Mobile's unfair advantage in the telecom industry is as such because it has the backing of the government and in most cases the TRA against Nawras. While Nawras is a joint international venture between private investors, Oman Mobile has the backing of it's investors and the government.

Oman Mobile's homepage boasts "Being a dynamic and agile market player we deepen and personalize relationship with our 1 million customers by delivering maximum network coverage, more value-for-money, and a wide range of cutting-edge wireless voice and data services with immersive and interactive promotional offers.".
Yeah, right.

Most Oman Mobile users complain more often than less about how their unable to get through the network because of that one reason. In addition to the lousy service they get through their service hotline.

Even though the fact still states that Nawras has only about 300,000 subscibers in it's network, its still far more advanced than Oman Mobile's in terms that it introduced prepaid cards use internationaly two weeks before Oman Mobile did. Nawras also introduced sending prepaid credit through SMS' a feature that Oman Mobile only got close to by presenting its newest feature SMS Parking - half their customers hardly know the number it should be sent to so they can get their ticket. Nawras introduced EDGE technology which enables you to use your data line upto ADSL speed to go through the internet whilst using your mobile as the modem. Another first to come into phase is the 3G network although there may be speculations of how successful it would be in Oman let alone in the GCC region.

Those are just facts.

I just wonder how much time is it until people realize that Oman Mobile clearly imitates every single campaign Nawras gets into? From advertisements, special offers and now: Muscat Festival sprees.

Oman Mobile wasn't going to enter into sponsoring the Festival because it thought to itself that 100,00 was just too much until it changed its mind for two reasons. First; Nawras took the chance first. Secondly, the government gave them the 'red eye'.

If you're still an Oman Mobile subscriber by the time you read this article - you're a sucker.