the monopoly thing has been goin on for ages. Smaller competitors seem to struggle in trying to beat their rivals cos the contracts are always ” pre-signed ”

anyhuu..maybe it will all change in another 5 years or so when people get tired of seing the same companies again n again. Remember the excitement when vodafone came thru ?

Bad photos, and wtf is it to do with the QTel? They must have dropped a bomb on that campaign, but I can’t see what value they will get back from it. QMedia will be happy about it all though.

If I have to guess, I’ll tell you why the were built. So that when they finally DO open up the market, everything’s taken.

The reason why they’re empty is because of their prices and that’s what happens when there is no competition.

We NEED competition, especially in marketing to fuel better quality of service and to encourage businesses.

They charge something like 8Million QR a year for the huge billboard on c-ring road.

where do they think that billboard is? Times Square?

The thing that annoys me is that after digging up all the medians and erecting their awful billboards every 50m on the main roads, almost all of them are still empty. The only company advertising on 90% of QMedia’s billboards is QMedia. Makes me think they were all built then with no purpose in mind???

And as a monopoly provider I guess they can dictate their own prices, which might explain why so few companies are willing to shell out for it. Perhaps if there was some competition in the market, then some companies might actually rent billboard space??

what’s your view on this ?

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