Comments on: UTS attacks, pastechi and technological limitations on Curacao

By: Lisandro

Lisandro — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:50:03 +0000

I’m also fedup with this UTS BullSHHH. I went to a service center, waited almost 3 hours for my turn, asking them for a upgrade from 2 to 4mbit. Before you know it, that “awesome” 2 years contract is infront of you and waiting to be signed! After that they told me, they will call me that afternoon to confirm if it’s possible to upgrade to 4mbit. Almost 3 weeks passed by, i get a misirable phone call from UTS giving me the great news that it was not possible to upgrade from 2 to 4mbit due to phoneline problems they have. Isn’t that wonderful? Bringing some kickass deals which they can’t manage to keep up! btw if your 3G contract is about to expire, make sure you go personally to a UTS center and cancel it! If you don’t do it, they will automatically renew your contract!

Gr,

Lisandro

By: Rajvee

Rajvee — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:44:05 +0000

I have been having a lot of trouble lately with my 4MB internet connection. When I first upgraded about a month ago I was very happy with the increase in speed. But lately, the connection has been so slow.. I feel like i should have just stayed with the 2MB. I feel that they have tried to nip any potential competition in the bud by offering a 4MB connection but have not actually done any technical upgrade to boost their system to handle the 4MB customers. I have heard others that are having the same problem, even with their 3G stick. I am so pissed off I don’t know what to do. I have to wait like 2 hours to buffer a 30 minute video. Isn’t that ridiculous?!!

By: Theo

Theo — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:31:31 +0000

Let’s hope I’m not going to be punished because if this. Probably the internet will not work for a week now I said this

Btw my bill didn’t go up, maybe they know Dave is writing for your blog?

By: Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:54:52 +0000

I am also pretty happy with the upgrade to 4. Although my bill went up with 5 guilders. But I will see next month if it was just a one time mistake. The amount is tool low so not worth the trouble (yet)

@ Theo YOU? Happy with Curacao technology? This is an historical moment

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By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:47:50 +0000

I signed up for the 3G when UTS debuted it at EFEX 2008. I thought it was a good idea at the time because I working as the IT-guy at a company and I was on the road a lot, doing installations and giving support. A true, mobile connection had a lot advantages for me.

And in the beginning it was ok. Not a lot of people had this connection, so I was getting great speeds when making my installation/support visits. Then it all started going downhill…

The modem started bluescreening my laptop. UTS could never figure out the problem. Speeds started to drop..the connection started to drop… But I moved on from that IT job and started making a living as a writer so I really don’t need it anymore. At home I have the ADSL, Wi-Fi on the iPhone and the Digicel Blackberry package, which are all sufficient.

But my 3G contract is about to expire and I won’t be extending it. There’s absolutely no reason to do so.

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:37:28 +0000

So you’re one happy family as long as you’re not at home
3G is pretty useless when you have a blackberry ánd iPhone, so get rid of it asap and enjoy a more stable broadband connection at home (and make your friends at UTS happy!).

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:04:55 +0000

I use my iPhone with a pre-paid Chippie chip… I’m happy there.
I have a Blackberry with a package from Digicel…. very happy there.
The wife has a Blackberry with the biggest package from UTS…she’s happy there.

Then there’s the 2Mbit connection and 3G from UTS….not happy at all.

I think I should just give the 3G back, upgrade to 4Mbit, keep paying the 149,- (they are still dangling this offer in front of me) and maybe then I’ll be more satisfied with the broadband side of things.

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:56:26 +0000

Dave the mailbag has turned out to be perfect input for your column, especially the UTS attacks part is brilliant! I think I saw your picture in the hand of their guard the last time I was at UTS.

By the way, since they upgraded my internet connection to 4 mbps for the same 150 guilders I am pretty happy. It seems to work a lot better, more stable and the speed is oke. My Digicel Blackberry works great with a good connection so I guess I am pretty happy with Curacao’s technology at the moment (who would have thought I’d say that some day!).

And please…. skip the pastechi’s and keep writing about technology