ABU DHABI // The UAE ranks 30th and 37th worldwide this year for prices of prepaid and postpaid mobile broadband, respectively.
The International Telecommunication Union based the rankings on affordability, comparing prices of 500 megabyte packages to gross national income.
Below are selected prices for data packages in high-income countries, including the UAE.
Etisalat (Monthly prepaid data packages)
1 GB: Dh 99
3 GB: Dh 149
5 GB: Dh250
10 GB: Dh299
20 GB: Dh 449
Unlimited: Dh999
du (Monthly prepaid data packages)
1 GB: Dh100
3 GB: Dh150
4 GB: 200
10 GB: 300
25 GB: 500
Mobily, Saudi Arabia (Monthly)
1 GB: Dh77
2 GB: Dh98
3 GB: Dh127
5 GB: Dh196
Unlimited: Dh343
STC, Saudi Arabia (Monthly)
500 MB: 69
2 GB: 98
5 GB: 196
Ooreedoo, Qatar (Weekly)
250 MB: Dh15
750 MB: Dh20
1.5 GB: Dh25
3.75 GB: Dh50
Unlimited: Dh101
3, Hong Kong (4G LTE, monthly)
1 GB: Dh89
For 12-month plans paid monthly:
1 GB: Dh80
2 GB: Dh94
5 GB: Dh122
10 GB: Dh198
T-Mobile, US (Monthly)*
1 GB: Dh184
3 GB: Dh220
5 GB: Dh257
Unlimited: Dh294
*The plans listed include unlimited voice and SMS, and unused 4G data can roll over for 3 GB and 5 GB plans.
Viva, Kuwait (Monthly)
A Dh250 monthly prepaid plan includes 500 voice minutes, 500 SMS, 30 international minutes and 30 international SMS, as well as 5 GB data.
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Types of bank fraud
1) Phishing
Fraudsters send an unsolicited email that appears to be from a financial institution or online retailer. The hoax email requests that you provide sensitive information, often by clicking on to a link leading to a fake website.
2) Smishing
The SMS equivalent of phishing. Fraudsters falsify the telephone number through “text spoofing,” so that it appears to be a genuine text from the bank.
3) Vishing
The telephone equivalent of phishing and smishing. Fraudsters may pose as bank staff, police or government officials. They may persuade the consumer to transfer money or divulge personal information.
4) SIM swap
Fraudsters duplicate the SIM of your mobile number without your knowledge or authorisation, allowing them to conduct financial transactions with your bank.
5) Identity theft
Someone illegally obtains your confidential information, through various ways, such as theft of your wallet, bank and utility bill statements, computer intrusion and social networks.
6) Prize scams
Fraudsters claiming to be authorised representatives from well-known organisations (such as Etisalat, du, Dubai Shopping Festival, Expo2020, Lulu Hypermarket etc) contact victims to tell them they have won a cash prize and request them to share confidential banking details to transfer the prize money.
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What is graphene?
Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged like honeycomb.
It was discovered in 2004, when Russian-born Manchester scientists Andrei Geim and Kostya Novoselov were "playing about" with sticky tape and graphite - the material used as "lead" in pencils.
Placing the tape on the graphite and peeling it, they managed to rip off thin flakes of carbon. In the beginning they got flakes consisting of many layers of graphene. But as they repeated the process many times, the flakes got thinner.
By separating the graphite fragments repeatedly, they managed to create flakes that were just one atom thick. Their experiment had led to graphene being isolated for the very first time.
At the time, many believed it was impossible for such thin crystalline materials to be stable. But examined under a microscope, the material remained stable, and when tested was found to have incredible properties.
It is many times times stronger than steel, yet incredibly lightweight and flexible. It is electrically and thermally conductive but also transparent. The world's first 2D material, it is one million times thinner than the diameter of a single human hair.
But the 'sticky tape' method would not work on an industrial scale. Since then, scientists have been working on manufacturing graphene, to make use of its incredible properties.
In 2010, Geim and Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. Their discovery meant physicists could study a new class of two-dimensional materials with unique properties.
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Countdown to Zero exhibition will show how disease can be beaten
Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease, an international multimedia exhibition created by the American Museum of National History in collaboration with The Carter Center, will open in Abu Dhabi a month before Reaching the Last Mile.
Opening on October 15 and running until November 15, the free exhibition opens at The Galleria mall on Al Maryah Island, and has already been seen at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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