FINALLY !! ADSL prices here in Syria dropped!! Now it costs like the following: One time Setup fee: 2000 SP (~37$) 256Kbps: 2400 SP/month (~45$) 512Kbps: 3700 SP/month (~69$) 1 Mbps: 5900 SP/month (~111$) 2 Mbps: 9800 SP/month (~184$) 4 Mbps: 17000 SP/month (~320$) 8 Mbps: 29800 SP/month (~562$) And an ADSL modem: 2000 SP [...]
Filed under: Syria on January 28th, 2006 | 5 Comments »
I was visiting the Syrian ISP web site (Called “190″, www.190.sy, governmental ISP not private) looking for news about ADSL prices, and while looking in the ADSL settings page I saw a weird picture showing some Mummy or I don’t know what! Look at the picture above. I don’t think it is a mistake, unless [...]
Filed under: Syria on January 15th, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Welcome to Syria Insider Edition! We have just received the news from one of our reporters that the ADSL prices will be dropped by the half at the middle of this month!! Expected at 15th of Feb. Ok guys this is not a joke! This month hopefully the 256Kbps ADSL will be 2500 Syrian Pounds [...]
Filed under: Syria on January 8th, 2006 | 7 Comments »
An excavation project on the Syrian-Iraqi border has uncovered an ancient settlement wiped out by invaders 5,500 years ago. Look here to read more about it: Link Hasan Bazerbashi
Filed under: Syria on December 19th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I really thought that we are finally free and actually will have freedom in accessing the Internet resources, but unfortunately that dream looks too big to happen in the eyes of the guys who manages the Internet in Syria. I talked before about the first private ISP in Syria (Aya) and how great it is. [...]
Filed under: Syria on September 14th, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Aya ISP is the best player in the field right now. I love you Aya I made an account easily using a prepaid card availbe at the super markets or any other place, created the account, and everything went wonderfull. THERE IS NO PROXY AT ALL! everything is working I tested it my self – [...]
Filed under: Syria on August 9th, 2005 | 8 Comments »
After long waiting it looks like it happened. The first private ISP in Syria Aya looks promising. I still didn’t try the new ISP yet, but I contacted them and asked them a few questions. Comparing it with the other availble ISPs the new ISP Aya looks better in two main points. First, the price [...]
Filed under: Syria on August 7th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
I heard from some good source that next month the ISP SCS gonna lower the ADSL monthly fee I heard that the 256Kbit connection is gonna cost 4000 SP ($75) a month. Not that much less but I think it is a start. I hope they will be able to lower that price much more [...]
Filed under: Syria on July 18th, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Oh man …. they just block everything When I was out of Syria I used to visit a lot of Technology news resources such as Wired. This is just a normal web site with Technology news. And guess what … It is blocked in Syria heh. I don’t why! Maybe some body would tell me. [...]
Filed under: Syria on May 12th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Hi folks, I’m writting this because I think most of the Syrian youth hate the Internet service in Syria, and I’m trying just to put things together and show why. I wanted to get a connection to the Internet. So I asked around and found out that there is only one ISP ( Syrian Telecommunication [...]
Filed under: Syria on May 9th, 2005 | 10 Comments »
