Etisalat's antics

Can someone please tell the decision makers at Etisalat how silly they look in the press? They have just announced plans to purchase Guardian - a system that will block VoIP packets passing through their network. Basically this means Skype and similar software will not function for anyone forced to use their proxy.

First the proxy and now this. According to Wikipedia, it costs Etisalat a whooping AED9 million to enforce restrictions. Getting rid of the proxy will automatically increase their revenues by 9 million.

Etisalat uses the American company SecureComputing, similarly to other GCC nations. They purchase lists of websites as classified by the SecureComputing company. According to TimeOut magazine, Dubai, the UAE government pays 9,549,800 AED each year to the SecureComputing company, the equivelant of 2.6 Million US Dollars, (this is worked out at the rate of 2$ USD per connection).

I don't know how much Guardian will cost them but I am sure it will be within that price range. Funny how their expenses may be balancing their losses.