TV and Internet?
By nottmbantam •
Ok, so if we move into an apartment ( not on a compound )
TV
Do we have to get cable / sat tv installed or something?
Are there any free to air tv channels?
Who is the best cable / sat tv provider and how much does it cost?
Internet:
Is Wi Max internet available yet in Qatar?
If not, is it ASDL and again, who is the fastest / cheapest provider
What are the typical download speeds. here in KSA, I get 2mbps speed ( in theory! )
Get yourself a slingbox and watch Sky TV here.
i do have also 3 sats; arabsat, nilesat and insat. but only 10 or 12 channels are useful.
I get Arabsat, Nilesat and Hotbird free-to-air. It gives over 1300 useless channels! (And about 4 useful ones.)
Mandi
Mozaic does it all and has a current max speed of 2meg, but this is dependent on the distance from the nearest exchange.
best is Qtel mosaic package. basic package will cost you 250/qr per month. it will have landline, internet and basic tv channels. for internet they provide wifi free router.
in addition to basic channels they have wide rage of additional channels with reasonable costs, you can add more packages as per your requirements. for more info just brows mosaic site:
http://tv.mozaic.qa/channel_packages.html
prime asia or prime arabia is the basic package free of charge, you can choose anyone of them and add other packages on extra cost.
normal home landline is around 35/qr and internet 200/qr per month, so u are paying 15 riyals extra to get free basic tv channels (prime asia or prime arabia) and free wifi router.
i suggest you to go for this one, becoz they provide very good maintanance and repairing service also. you dont have to run after sattelite technitions in case of small problems or software updates and card purchases.
we are using mosaic service for 3 years now and we are very much satisfied with service, cost and choices of channels.