Does This 3G Ad (for Afghanistan) Hurt you?

[NoToIpL]

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This above ad is being advertised on Google network by Etisalat Afghanistan for its newly launched 3G services. You call it bad strategy that it is appearing in Pakistan (on websites with adsense enabled, such as here on ProPakistani) but it could be a purposeful and planned act by Etisalat to enhance the image of its telecom arm in Afghanistan.

Whatever the reasons are behind displaying this ad in Pakistan, but it might not look that pleasant to Pakistani audience, who are deprived of 3G just because operators don’t find 3G viable enough.

Just in case in you aren’t familiar, Afghanistan has got its first 3G network through Etisalat. This is exactly what the above ad is advertising about: “High-Speed Internet has Arrived”.

ARPU (Average Revenue Per User), economic situation, inflation, law and order situation, internet adaptability, smartphone penetration and all other concerning factors in Afghanistan are seemingly not any better than Pakistan.

In such a situation, how does this AD feel like to you? when Afghanistan has a 3G network while it still seems like a distant dream here in Pakistan.

[NoToIpL]

isn't that a Shame for the 4th intelligent country in the World to not have 3G

[Pakistaniboy]

It is 3G in Pakistan.

[Shaddy]

Yes it does hurt, specially when you travel from the UK, where I use 3.5 connection (HSDPA) and have to adapt to mostly GPRS and occasionally Edge. It does feel a million years behind. People in Pakistan have the most advanced smartphones but they don't even use 30% of the functionality due to low speed internet. It's a shame, Pakistan needs HSDPA!!

[pakistani_banda]

dude do some research before claiming things. we have 3G connection in pakistan. ptcl evo uses 3G connection with 3.1mbs, ptcl evo nitro uses 3g with 9.3 mbps.

worldcall usb is 3G connection. ptcl wifi cloud is 3G, ptcl android phone is 3G.

[LethalSami]

OP fail

i hsven't seen 4G but there is plenty of 3G providers in Pak

[Aly]

3g is overrated as hell. Right now using PTCL evo 3g wifi cloud (hotspot) & boy do I not miss my good old broadband modem with a wifi router on it!

3g is only good as long as you're virtually hugging the tower ! Go 500 meters away & the so called 3.1 mbps connection turns into an effing 256k connection!

Only indian loners / nerds could hype this erroneous technology & can have multiple orgasms about it (as can be seen by their over the top ads ) *OP. *
I would rather wait for 4g than to fret about something that's hardly what it claims to be

[anakin]

@Aly: if 3g service in Pakistan is poor .... don't act like sour grapes if your neighbour has better

[Looney]

[Aly]

Originally Posted by anakin @Aly: if 3g service in Pakistan is poor .... don't act like sour grapes if your neighbour has better

It's not just about the coverage only. PTCL has probably a tower every 2 km all over Pak!

It's very much about the 3g technology itself ..
1 have you ever checked your connection's latency on 3g?

2-There's a reason why even Skype asks you to use a wifi connection instead of 3g
for smoother calls!

The bottom line is that 3g is very much a luxury & not a necessity of life so instead of adopting it just to be a part of that cool rat race & then to make claims about it which it can never fulfill perfectly (just to make more people use it & hence recover your investments) *Indian Case*, it's much better to provide it according to it's demand in a down to earth manner *talking about the 3rd world in general btw *

[LethalSami]

Aly is right...

i was just 1 km from the tower and a 3 Mbps 3G connection becomes like a dial-up