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November 12, 2008

8Mb Internet connection in Jordan! is it a dream?

Filed under: Life, Technology — Tags: , , — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 3:39 pm

Yesterday I received a message from Zain that I never expect to get anytime soon. Finally Zain ADSL is the first ISP that provide broadband internet connection up to 8M of speed.

Directly I called the customer service center of Zain to get more information, and I figured out that they provide the service with 4, 6 and 8Mb. I asked about the prices of the service which are less than getting the connection for 2Mb. Do you know why? you don’t have to pay anything to Orange (Jordan Telecom Group) now to get the service. We will only pay for Zain as an ISP without any monthly payment to Orange. The installation fees are 70JDs for those who don’t have an internet connection already and they are offering the service with free installation until the end of this month.

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November 7, 2008

Finally: new airport in the making

Filed under: Life — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 6:12 pm

It’s obvious for all of us that as soon as any visitor arrives to Jordan will get a bad first impression! Queen Alia airport, very small, very dirty and very unorganized! Today as I arrived to Queen Alia Airport and passed the check point it looked different big time. Airport International Group started to work on the revamp that we were reading about for a long time.

Now you have to take the detour to reach the terminals. All the way to the terminal you can see the signs on the sides that are impressive with catchy color and one of them is shown above.

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