The story began when I purchased a Etisalat Line back in early 2008. Etisalat managed to lose a client in 14 days for two times in a row. Let's see how they managed to do this brilliant work.

I have recently purchased a 3.5G USB modem from the Egyptian Mobile Broadband provider, Etisalat. So far I have tried all packages provided by Etisalat Egypt (384Kb and 3.6Mb) and I must say they're 100% working under Linux exactly as expected. Using NetworkManager 0.7 which is currently available in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Gentoo and Debian Experimental, I managed to use the USB modem with few clicks under both KDE and GNOME. Etisalat ships with the modem a windows application to send SMS and browse SMS directory on the SIM. KMobileTools (KDE) managed to do the same job in a perfect way and I think gnome-phone-manager or gnokii can do exactly the same job.