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  • The New Connect Ads Are Spot On

    It’s almost the end of the month, and as per Ogero’s new Director General Imad Kreidieh our internet speeds are supposed to double or triple by tomorrow! However, unless he is a magician, I really don’t see how the speeds are going to increase with the current rotting telephone network… I have mentioned it several times before, as long as copper wires are still used to connect households to central offices I really can’t see the connection quality getting better.

    I personally have been feeling very frustrated with my DSL connection for quite some time now due to speed and latency degradation in the evening. In fact, I can rarely enjoy online gaming anytime before 10 or 11PM… which recently got me thinking of switching to some wireless internet provider. Using 3G or 4G would definitely be the optimal solution but the bundles are quite expensive for home usage and lack of free night traffic is a deal breaker.

    Aside from their witty ads, I have been hearing some positive feedback about Connect and I’m considering checking if they can allow me to test their connection where I live before committing to one of their plan, and I will definitely subscribe in case their service was stable throughout the day.

    Another possible solution could be to talk to your neighborhood’s “hayda taba3 l cable” who basically provides you with internet by installing a wireless atenna/access-point on your building’s roof. Even though no one really knows where they get their capacities from, they surprisingly provide good speed an latency. A guy I know in Dekwaneh for example gets <100ms latency to google.com which is pretty decent in Lebanon. The drawback however is that the service gets totally fucked during winter time…

    Anyway, I will let you know how it goes with me!

  • It’s Christmas and Lebanon is Calling!

    In my humble opinion, Demco easily wins the best Christmas ad this year!

    In the same spirit of the ad during they made for the US presiential elections, they’re still reaching out for the Lebanese expats to convince them of returning back to their home country following some breakthroughs like the election of a new president and the formation of a new government, and while the previous one was touching, the new ad reaches even deeper everyone of us.

    We all have loved family members living abroad, and most of those are not even thinking of returning. But come to think of it, while we have a lot of reasons to curse this country everyday, we have a hundred more to love it! I personally had the opportunity to go live and work elsewhere, but I chose to stay here because I’m too attached to my city to leave it.

    When I watched the ad I couldn’t but think of my brother who lives in the UAE and how much my parents and I would all love him to come live among us again…!

    We all deserve to reunite with our loved ones, at least during the happy holiday season if not for a lifetime, because as the ad at the end says, it is simply not the same without them!

  • Fail – Rymco really values your thoughts

    Can you believe big brands still make these faux pas online? Some social media “guru” must be running their account!

    rymco twitter

     

  • Byblos Bank – The Lebanese are losing it

    Lebanese banks have probably realized they will never be able to improve their customer service, so they opted for producing some cools ads instead. First Jammal Trust Bank, then Bank Audi, and now Byblos Bank.

    Kudos to the agency that came up with this one!

  • Dracula loves the Lebanese

    GEICO by the way is a US auto insurance company known for its advertisements stressing how it takes a 15 minutes call to save 15% on car insurance using different characters.

    via reddit

  • YASA & May Sahab speed awareness ad

  • touch Lebanon – Text & Talk new ad

    3anjad kholsit iyyeim l missed call?

    Another similar cool ad for Text & Talk also started showing on TV today but hasn’t been upload to touch Lebanon’s YouTube channel yet.

    Update:

    Here’s the second ad.

  • The order of nurses should loosen up a bit

    Do you recall the XXL ad featuring nurses in an elderly care center? That ad stopped showing on Lebanese TVs a while ago, and it turned out it was the order who called for banning it because they believed it gave nurses a bad image, just as in the case with “My last valentine in Beirut“. The news was mentioned on the order of nurses Facebook page, as well as at the end of this article in L’Orient-Le Jour.

    Those people should really loosen up a bit!

  • Ici c’est trois bises

    Make sure to also check the cool ads released by Château Ksara a while ago.

  • touch Lebanon – MyPlan ad