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29 March 2024

Etisalat begins Gitex at speed of 300Mbps

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By Wam

Etisalat's customers will become the first in the Middle East to enjoy transformational Internet speeds in their homes as Etisalat announces launch of 300Mbps speeds, allowing superfast access to content, gaming, video streaming, social media, downloads and much more.

As part of Etisalat's eLife double play and triple play service, Etisalat is set to launch the blazing, 10 times faster Internet speeds for residential customers by end of October 2012.

Starting today, eLife service offers up to 100Mbps home broadband double or triple play options for customers to enjoy Internet, TV and fixed-line services on a single, convenient account. eLife 100Mbps triple play subscription (Internet, TV and fixed-line) is available to customers at the market's best-in-value rate.

Since launch of eLife services, number of customers subscribed to the service has reached half a million.

Rashed Majed Alabbar, Vice President of Home Products Marketing for Etisalat, said: "Fiber-optic network offers a tremendous capacity to keep up with any new technological advancement such as eLife TV, home monitoring and so on. Delivering an even higher performance to home and office customers, the commercial launch of the region's highest 300Mbps speeds is a major milestone in our fiber-optic roll-out plan for the UAE." He added, "We are excited to launch the new 300Mbps speed. We are confident on the potential of our fiber-optic broadband network to not only benefit our customers' social lives, but also drive development in UAE's businesses and areas such m-health, e-governance and m-education, to name a few."