…that reading as poo / p.u. / your interpretation.
So its been 2 months since I got my du number and my experience has so far been well… poo. Constant dropouts, network busy errors, poor reception, the list goes on! For the longest time you couldn’t even call a toll-free number (800/etc), although that seems to have been fixed now.
What really irritates me is not so much their lack of service, but rather their disservice to everyone that has been looking forward to switching over from Etisalat. After years of living through a monopoly, here was the one way we could kick Etisalat where it really hurts… but all du has ended up du-ing is convincing us to go back to Etisalat.
I have no doubt that, in time, du’s network will eventually be as strong as Etisalat, but the bottom line is that du *should not* have started their services without ironing out all its connectivity issues… until then, Etisalat still gets my money.
So what has your experience of du been? Answers to the poll on your right.
All those of you who’ve decided to keep both your Etisalat and du number, diverting one to the other, STOP! As I found out the hard way, you will be charged for diverted calls between networks. Any calls that I received on my Etisalat number (which was diverted to my du number) were charged back to me and that too for the entire duration of the call! Some things never change…
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Which is why Du’s focus has been on practically giving away their service. I think it’s pretty smart from their point of view.
Since they do not seem to have the resources to woo users with superior service quality, they’ve aimed for the ‘oh well, it’s cheap and bound to improve’ crowd. Now that their ever extending ‘Thank you’ deadline has finally been reached, they have a ‘limited offer’ Dh1 line.
One way or the other, they ‘re going to get people subscribing. You can conquer with overwhelming force, or you can just lay the foundations for a really long siege. At the end of the day, at least we have the coolness factor of having two phone numbers.