The campaign to improve the Internet in Yemen for the government: Aden Net blackmails citizens to buy a modem

The campaign to improve the Internet in Yemen calls for government intervention and accuses Aden Net of practicing extortion against citizens by forcing them to buy a modem

The campaign to improve the Internet in Yemen condemned what it described as "extortion" practiced by Aden Net against citizens by forcing them to buy a modem to obtain an Aden Net chip, and considered that this step is clear blackmail and corruption in favor of the corruption mafia, as the statement put it.

The campaign, in a statement obtained by Nashwan News, called on the government to intervene to stop this extortion and work to separate the sale of the SIM card from the sale of the modem, whose cost exceeds the cost of a full year subscription to the service.

Aden Net obliges customers to purchase home modems, and obliges those who have modern mobile devices worth more than hundreds of dollars and support version 4.5 of the fourth generation under the pretext of quality of service. net.

The campaign vowed to further escalate against Aden Net if it continued with this absurdity and illogical decisions.

The following is Nashwan News publishes the text of a statement issued by the Internet Improvement Campaign in Yemen:

The campaign to improve the Internet in Yemen followed the measures taken by the new service provider “Aden Net”, owned by the Yemeni government, which uses 4G technology.

According to the assurances received from the management of the service provider Aden Net and technical support through its website, they intend to link the sale of chips to customers and subscribers with the purchase of a modem from “Aden Net” at high prices as a condition for obtaining the service that can be operated by mobile phones without the need for a modem, and accordingly The campaign to improve the Internet in Yemen calls on the government to work to facilitate the access of customers and Internet users to the service, and stresses the following:

1- The “Aden Net” project is a big step and an important development for the telecommunications and Internet sector, which citizens have long waited for for years, and its completion with the announced specifications is a success that is credited to the government that worked to provide the service.

2- The government must work to produce the service as required, away from any illogical extortion or tampering that obliges customers to purchase devices (modems) that they are indispensable and that they cannot afford for a service designed to work from mobile devices.

3- The modems that Aden Net intends to sell are fixed and immovable home appliances, as they require continuous connection to the electric current, which empties the service of its content and its most important advantages, which is that it is a mobile service that works using mobile devices and mobile devices.

4- Many citizens have mobile devices (phones) capable of operating the service efficiently, and support version 4.5 or version 4G, and devices that do not support it will work on the third generation with the same service (Aden Net), and every citizen is free to choose the device that suits him without Bearing additional costs or burdens in light of these difficult circumstances on the citizen.

5- The cost of the modem that Aden Net plans to sell is greater than the cost of a full year's subscription to the new service, and this is very exaggerated.

6- The campaign to improve the Internet calls on the Yemeni government and the Ministry of Communications to stand up to this absurd decision, which will alienate people from the new service and will deprive a wide sector of benefiting from it, by directing the competent authorities in Aden Net to sell the SIM card without obligating the subscribers to buy the modem and contenting themselves with clarifying to the citizens The service needs modern devices that support it to function as required.

7- The campaign calls on the management of Aden Net not to argue that the devices available in the market only support version 4 and not version 4.5 of the fourth generation, because the advertised speeds are much lower than the absorption of the fourth generation devices and the devices that support the 4G version are more than sufficient.

8- From the aforementioned, it is clear that the aim of forcing citizens to buy modems is a purely commercial process aimed at extorting citizens and exploiting their need for service and in favor of what some describe as mafia and corruption gangs benefiting from this decision, which cannot be described as anything less than a decision Absurd and organized corruption.

9- The campaign to improve the Internet in Yemen confirms that it will not stop its continuous struggle against this blackmail, and that it will escalate its campaign against Aden Net, the Ministry of Receipts and the Yemeni government in the event that its demands are not met and holds the government responsible for that.

Issued by the Yemen Internet Improvement Campaign

Friday 3 August 2018

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