In this region air-conditioning is an essential requirement for any apartment, office or structure and, if district cooling is the only form of aircon, then it should be considered a basic essential service much like water, electricity and telephone.

I'm willing to pay to have the service connected, I need to live there, but I'm not willing to stand by quietly and watch some investors get charged more than others for the same service. For a monopoly company like Qatar Cool to charge absurdly high connection fees is unethical to begin with, but when it is clear that there is no common set pricing structure for the same service it just compounds the issue.