Broadband access

Qatar's people, institutions, and government have made steady progress in adopting ICT into daily life, according to Qatar's ICT Landscape 2009, the first country-wide, survey-based ICT study released on May 17th, 2009.

This first report provides a good understanding of where Qatar stands today compared to developing and developed countries in terms of ICT adoption by all sectors of the society, including residents, government, and the business community. It also looks at the education, health, and tourism sectors, as well as the ICT job market.

Number of Net users set to cross 350,000 this year

THE number of Internet users in Qatar is expected to cross 351,000 by the end of 2009, thereby driving the growth of business opportunities across the country’s IT spectrum, according to recent industry reports.
In line with this, Netgear, a networking solutions provider, has launched its new series of versatile wireless routers, which have been designed to meet the varying needs of Qatar-based clients, especially media enthusiasts, ‘prosumers’ and users who are always on the go.
The new range of heavy-duty wireless routers include the RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (WNDR3700), the RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Modem Router (DGND3300), and the 3G Mobile Broadband Wireless Router (MBR624GU).

Employer: Lionbridge Technologies
Industry: IT Support and Networking
Location: Qatar

Country Tester.

* Resident in the target Country
* Fluent in target locale’s language, both written and spoken
* Excellent written and verbal English
* Regular computer user
* Broadband access to Internet – unless prohibitive to locale
* Flexible and adaptable to new techniques / processes
* Reliable and structured working approach
* Has ability to work well on own initiative
* Good working knowledge of software testing techniques.
* Computer hardware and mobile technology knowledge is a plus
* You can work from home or an office environment

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