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It’s the fastest ever

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Just a reminder, don’t forget to check www.itsthefastestever.com at 9PM tonight for the launch of Zain’s new product. The site will be up only from 9PM to 10PM so don’t miss it.

54 replies on “It’s the fastest ever”

Kuwait’s internet prices are 10 times the global average, according to a recent news report. I don’t want the fastest, how about the cheapest?

Actually I want both. 1 G speed for 10KD, thats fair, for now.

Guys, the info is already present on their website.
13.5 for the standard speed and 27 for the super speed, both are unlimited but they mention that super has no internet or bandwidth restrictions!!!!!
Then again you can find that they are contradicting the “unlimited” part with the “Fair usage policy” as they say they will cap your download for unfair use, so what is “unfair use” to them? this is an open term and they can use it as they like.
Another thing what would happen to who has the current eGo service will we be able to switch to the new services before the one year commitment or not? and for your information, by the way, the eGo device supports up to 3.6MB speed max and cannot go further.

Mark, if it’s the Huawei E220 device then it only goes up to 3.6MB, and it can’t be upgraded by firmware.
Yazeed, the eGo (which is the Huawei E220) this one can’t be upgraded by firmware as it’s already upgraded from 384KB before and it can’t go any further.
You can do a search for that device and find all the info about it, and I couldn’t find a commercial product that supports 7.2MB in the time being.

Well they upgraded my old ego to 7.2 and supposedly the new ones which are black are 7.2. currently i think only 2 other mobile operators offer 7.2 so its not a popular thing so that could be why you could find any info on it.

I did google it Mark but I found the info I told you about. By the way, thank you for the link. So would I upgrade my self or let them do it?
Another thing, will they let me go with the new service or I have to complete my year first? (which is not logic as I’m capped with 5GB limit and the new service is unlimited with the option of cheaper price 13.5KD vs 16KD)

Having just logged onto the site to see what the big deal was, I’m a little disappointed.

Advertising 7.2Mpbs when the existing service which claims 1.2Mbps but gets absolutely nowhere near that for most of the day, seems a little – well – let’s be polite and say – cheeky.

Time to cut through all the worthless hype in Kuwait, and finally get off my arse to sign up for KEMS or Q-Net.

“Our premium offering for heavy users who want to surf the Internet, stream videos and download files constantly with unlimited usage at speeds up to 7.2Mbps. ”

“up to” is a dangerous word, it means to say that 7.X mb will not be constant…

There are too many questions

1. Will it be anywhere in kuwait?

2. what does Fair Policy define when they say “Our premium offering for heavy users who want to surf the Internet, stream videos and download files constantly with unlimited usage ”

3. What about technical support?

4. Have anyone tried to network the ego ? meaning share it with more than 1 pc. if could do this , then i could connect the Game console to the network.

5. Are we connecting at that speed 7.2 MBPS or we will be having a download rate of 936 KBPS constantly ?

6. Since too many people will be buying with this latest so called craze. Will the Zain internet bandwidth cloud manage so many users?

i wish someone had answers

Nouf was right, 50% off the ego. I just pre-ordered but they didn’t take down my knet number or visa card just my telephone number. Will they charge it on my bill??

*Sigh* E-go where do i begin? I purchased ego in late 2006 when Mtc where doing marketing at my work at KPC and i was a costumer with mtc (zain) roughly 14-15 years. That said ego was not that good the service was slow in browsing, downloading and bit torrent forget about it. Every time i called to complain about the service they told me there isn’t a single thing we can do, like it or not.Mind you i have a gold number 90, and a loyal costumer i pay my bills on time and i never had or made any problems. So anyway the first 2 weeks complaining to the costumer service my blood pressure rose dramatically and of course I did the whole song and dance where they register your complaint and within 24 or 48 hrs they will get back to you…..sadly no luck.With no refund or costumer service to truly answer any Q&A about the product and with no end in sight i did what any irrational warm blooded Kuwaiti would do …I canceled my ego and my line and never looked back.

P.S Mark if your not going to post my comment because your in bed with Zain at least pass on this message to them and let them know how it really is.

some say its good and some say its bad.

Mark I would suggest that you hold a survey for the eGo. and lets see what the majority think.

they said “To ensure a high quality of service and to provide equal access opportunities to all our customers, Zain follows a fair usage policy (for data sent and received) on monthly basis. Subject to fair usage policy, upon exceeding fair usage limits”, so that means that u will not get a 7.2 connection like 24/7 . it will depend on how many users to this service are connected to ur nearest transmition station.
1) the question is what is average speed that we will get?
2) will we be able to download movies ?
3) will the connection suffer from firewalls blocking the incomming connections?

From my experience, eGo doesn’t work (sucks big time) with eMule and any torrent client. Other than that it’s fine, download speeds range from 100-120 and in some best times 150 Kbps.

Any updates?

Few questions

1.Any body using the new 7.2?
2.What download speeds are you getting?
3.Are you able to download using torrent clients?

MTC, ZAIN, Whatever the hell. Everything they do sucks, they just have a huge marketing budget that makes it seem like they don’t suck. Frankly i am sick and tired of dropped calls every two minutes. Driving in the car in the city and not having a dropped call, you can forget about it. They should change the name to mooZain.

7.2 media-only event: update

I have 2 friends who entered all their details last night at 9pm.

Neither have heard anything from Zain.

LOL. Quelle surprise.

I talked to zain representative today.
He said that for zain postpaid customer its 13 KD and for non customers its 15KD. in case of downloading more than 30 GB in a month, they would reduce the internet speed. 13 KD standard package has a speed of around 350 kbps and 26 KD super package has speed of 7.2 mbps.Getting super package for 12 months would save your 36 KD.
Would it be appropriate to compare this 7.2 mbps with the wataniya’s 512 kbps?
Well, I am not using any of the two! and I am still exploring the sites to get any appropriate package.
Can any one tell me, how many devices are there to connect to this wireless net. I dont want to pay any significant upfront cost.
If i connect through a mobile device would it use excessive battery or just normal. please guide me about this.

la only the firmware
the dashboard i think has to do with mobily, its like the program u use to login or something, i didnt upgrade it, i use a different program to login, but i get 7.2

Any feedback on this new system, and if it works? My 2 friends who registered online were not at all contacted by MTC. Now MTC denies the website told them they would be contacted by MTC. <MTC tells them they should have bought at that time in the 1 hour. Both friends guarantee this option was not given to them.

i just yesterday bought this zain data sim card
i use wataniya but since i bought another laptop which also needed a 24/7 net connection so i thought why not buy zain and give it a try… although its 30 kd (28 kd for wataniya). and i used utorrent to download a movie just to check its speed…. the average speed was 12 kbps and movie downloaded around 10%. then i removed the zain chip from my merlin xu870 pci express card and put the wataniya chip in it…. and i got a download speed of 215 kbps. so thank god they only took 9 kd as for this month only 5-6 days were remaining. me planning to go and cancel the service on 29th of this month… and wataniya rocks big time 😀

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