KSA to the first world

[Mosamania]

A little off topic but I just wanted to know how is the internet in KSA?
How fast is it and for how much?
I am considering looking for a job, but if you guys are living with dial up then I rather not move there.

Well you have STC providing DSL. 8Mbps for about 90$ each 2 months. Don't know other companies prices because I have been living with this one for long and it is working alright by me.

 

[Rusty]

Well you have STC providing DSL. 8Mbps for about 90$ each 2 months. Don't know other companies prices because I have been living with this one for long and it is working alright by me.

wow that's insane.
Why are the prices so high?
Not even Canada has those kind of high prices.

But I guess at least they have that option.

 

[Mosamania]

wow that's insane.
Why are the prices so high?
Not even Canada has those kind of high prices.

But I guess at least they have that option.

Because it is a package. You get unlimited free calls with DSL and one of those USB SIM card Internets too.
And yes I agree it is very expensive because there is only one phone company other companies tried to get in but they always leave or stop.

 

[Rusty]

Because it is a package. You get unlimited free calls with DSL and one of those USB SIM card Internets too.

ak ok
Thanks for the info bro
I am thinking of applying to one of those nice new unis for a job

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

A question: Who is going to live in all of these apartments? Or are they mostly for show. Built on the backs of temporary immigrant workers from South Asia and Indonesia. Arabs never seem to surprise me.

Met one at the Ataturk International Airport. Hanging with his 6 wives. He was here to study at the Bogazici University.

 

[Mosamania]

A question: Who is going to live in all of these apartments? Or are they mostly for show. Built on the backs of temporary immigrant workers from South Asia and Indonesia. Arabs never seem to surprise me.

Met one at the Ataturk International Airport. Hanging with his 6 wives. He was here to study at the Bogazici University.

you are so full of $hit

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

A question: Who is going to live in all of these apartments? Or are they mostly for show. Built on the backs of temporary immigrant workers from South Asia and Indonesia. Arabs never seem to surprise me.

Met one at the Ataturk International Airport. Hanging with his 6 wives. He was here to study at the Bogazici University.

You have to be more logical and don't generalize judgment on all Saudi. I know Turkey is a progressive country but the majority of Jordanian for instance here think Turks are only good at cap driving, manufacturing clothes, tourism and low price/quality products which is not true. Just remember how not true the look at Turks in Germany.

 

[Serpentine]

Very good stuff in there some of them are really promising
But the topic title is misleading.Being a first world country doesn't just mean giving money to foreign countries building huge towers or stadiums or other things,the first condition for being a first world country is being able to do all the great stuff by indigenous experts and resources,not just providing the money.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Its not about buildings!! thats why i put description under every picture. As you noticed most of them are industrial, educational, cultural, technological and research cities.
About indigenous thing, the main contractors are companies from UAE and KSA, where the most engineers or architects are either Saudi or Arabs but the workers are from foreign countries. In fact here in Jordan you wouldn't see Jordanians work in most service sectors or as construction workers but most of them are Egyptians and from South Eastern Asia.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

King Saud University

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Arab Open University

Prince Sultan University

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Alfaisal University

Al Yamamah University

 

[Mosamania]

Very good stuff in there some of them are really promising
But the topic title is misleading.Being a first world country doesn't just mean giving money to foreign countries building huge towers or stadiums or other things,the first condition for being a first world country is being able to do all the great stuff by indigenous experts and resources,not just providing the money.

Most of the companies doing all this work are Saudi and UAE Companies there are strict regulations of experience transfer, since most of the archaticts etc. are people who just graduated because most of the universities in the country are newly built 75% of the building team must be Saudi Nationals. Meaning all these stuff our students will be able to build on their own the second time around.

For instance in my field (the medical field) ALL doctors who are in the country either Saudi or not MUST teach students in their area of expertise.

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

you are so full of $hit

Right...hey did you get a job yet now that Saudization is in its 6 year of implementation? Or are you "Studying" for free in Lebanon or some other western university?

You have to be more logical and don't generalize judgment on all Saudi. I know Turkey is a progressive country but the majority of Jordanian for instance here think Turks are only good at cap driving, manufacturing clothes, tourism and low price/quality products which is not true. Just remember how not true the look at Turks in Germany.

Don't worry, Turks think the same thing about Jordanians. How many platforms can Gulf Arabs manufacture? Rather than requesting western corporations to build them platforms why not actually build one yourself? These "CITIES" who do you think designed them? Who do you think is going to build them? How many Gulf Arabs have YOU seen actually do some sort of Manual Labor? They're too busy trying to find Houbaras in Pakistan. Apparently they couldn't get Viagra.

But seriously, there are 2 sides to every coin. And I was generalizing saudis, you forgot to include the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar.