STC: Zero out of Five

by

Earlier this year, STC started a huge promotional campaign to force their customers (almost everybody as STC were the exclusive provider of mobile service) to add an extra “zero” to their mobile phones numbers which start with “05”. STC added the “zero” after the “5” to make the numbers start with “050” and the announced goal was to expand the network capacity.

STC, well known for their bad customer service and their greedy nature, did not ask the customers at the first place if they were OK with adding a “zero” or not. If people were asked to add anything, they would definitely go with “5” instead of “0”, however, STC did not pay enough attention and added an f**cking “zero” to every f**cking mobile number.

Now, after STC finally discovered people wanted “5” instead of “0”, they are shamelessly asking the customers to pay SR 25 (around $7) to change the numbers from “0” to “5”, or you can stick to your ugly “zero-ed” number. Yes, we pay money to correct a mistake STC made when they changed our numbers without our will (they could run SMS-based poll before taking such idiot decisions!).

It seems that STC will try to suck every possible riyal from people’s wallets before the entry of the new telecommunications provider after six months. The new company, called Etisalat Union (who made up this crappy name?), is owned by UAE’s Etisalat and some Saudi investors, and it will be the first competitor to STC in the Saudi fast growing market.

9 thoughts on “STC: Zero out of Five”

  1. Mona: well wats wrong with 050 :s it’s always been 050 here in UAE :P

    i didnt know etisalat were going to ksa…weird

  2. Ahmad,

    My bad luck and propabaly a curse has lead me to your blog. I read through and I presume you are still young (may be 19 or so) therefore I will do my best to watch my langauge otherwise I could be tried for child abuse. You are a Shia Muslim and that is fine with me. You should just tell your friends (who read your crap) that the reason you look so negatively at Saudi Arabia and its people is not because you want REFORMS but rather because you are a Shia with a huge sense of inferiority complex. Another thing, your uncle was born in Qum and died there, so why on earth are you in Saudi??? You are even in love with Irani RAP???? Gosh, get the hell out and join your brother Persian Mullas or Shia Mullas or whatever. I have no problem with Shia but I do have a problem with sick people like you living in our country and hating everything in it or everything that stands for. I have tried to watch my language…and I will keep watching your blog and I don’t garantee to maintain my calm>>>>> Mutawaa min Elriyadh,,,ha ha ha

  3. Ahmad,

    My bad luck and propabaly a curse has lead me to your blog. I read through and I presume you are still young (may be 19 or so) therefore I will do my best to watch my langauge otherwise I could be tried for child abuse. You are a Shia Muslim and that is fine with me. You should just tell your friends (who read your crap) that the reason you look so negatively at Saudi Arabia and its people is not because you want REFORMS but rather because you are a Shia with a huge sense of inferiority complex. Another thing, your uncle was born in Qum and died there, so why on earth are you in Saudi??? You are even in love with Irani RAP???? Gosh, get the hell out and join your brother Persian Mullas or Shia Mullas or whatever. I have no problem with Shia but I do have a problem with sick people like you living in our country and hating everything in it or everything that stands for. I have tried to watch my language…and I will keep watching your blog and I don’t garantee to maintain my calm>>>>> Mutawaa min Elriyadh,,,ha ha ha

  4. Calm down you!
    My uncle was born and raised in this country that you love. I don’t hate my country, I just hate the wrong things about it. Think twice before judging.

  5. … And another thing. You don’t have problem with Shia as along as they still inferiors in your country, right?! Otherwise they can get the hell out of it and go to hell with anybody but you and your Mutawwa freinds.

  6. OFMG! Etisalat’s tentacles of greediness reached ’til there? Holy Crap! By the way, Etisalat’s monopoly here in the UAE is about to end. Ameen. What’s wrong with 050 anyway? ;P

  7. I have to agree with anonymous on this, Ahmad you bitch about every little bit. You want to echo the life style or ‘freedoms’ of the west, but you dont even have a clear picture of what that is.

    For example, you bitch about the customs checking the parcels, hello dude that happens here in the west too, you bitch about uniforms at college, that happens in the west too, you deny Reems in your society, we here in the west see all your mobile phone vids, and let me tell you there are 100’s of reems.

    You want reform, reform does not mean change the society to some back street red light district.

    Go read about reform and reformation of society, read about progress and progression in society. I am sure you will realise your “halaa Halaa” is not even close.

  8. Well, I cannot find anything wrong with adding a zero, especially if the provider is the only one :P. But their ad’s that said “Ya hala bel zero” made me pretty sick !! Who was waiting for the zero for God’s sake ! I felt like I did not know what was going on around me, but later on I discovered how seriously “silly” STC was.

Comments are closed.