1,000,000 Q-Tel Customers
I post this asking the question that might be on many other peoples' minds. Qatar has roughly 800,000 inhabitants. Q-Tel is celebrating 1,000,000 customers. This tells me that EVERY person in Qatar [and that will include every new born as well] has a Q-Tel product of some sort - be it a mobile phone or a landline.
Perhaps some Marketing geek out there can shed some light on the matter for me. How do they actually determine the number of customers? Is this from the beginning of their existence or the current customers on record? If I have a mobile, landline, an ADSL and Internet accounts - would this be counted as 4 customers or as 1? If it is counted as 4 then the 1,000,000 is easily achievable.
I look forward to your thoughts on this.
Have a great Q-Tel day.
sa_japie
"to be or not to be - that is the question"
Hey Pwb78,
That's a good point! Didn't think of it that way.
The only time that a Monopoly should be proud of its accomplishments is when they provide a product/service that is so superb that even if their monopoly expired, no competitor would even be able to enter the market to compete (due to a combination of a high quality product/service + low pricing).
But again, that would be a case where the existing monopoly has already accumulated a sufficient market share, and in turn, capital to have the power to slash prices down to a degree that will still weed out any new competitors.
Monopoly - the best thing a corporation can get at its birth!
Let's hope QTel hears us out and strives to always enhance their services.
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I think it's a bit funny they even chose such a marketing campaign when they're the ONLY choice we have. I mean,is it really that much of an accomplishment when you have no competition?
the new business TETRA system, that catered for the security forces during the Asian Games ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Bad advertising by Qtel there, but yep they have a commercial TETRA system in Qatar...and I bet it just as bad as all the other terrible services they offer...ADSL when it wants to work at the speed in which you subscribed. GSM services that are worse than useless (better services in some parts of Africa than here)...landlines that are so noisey on international calls you may as well used SKYPE!!!
We came we saw we were Qatarized
I think you're right...mobile, landline, and ADSL counts as an individual "customer" for every service that you use.
I'm surprised they didn't count Hala cards too so they could say they have 5,000,000 customers.