Talk:Qatar/@comment-31946815-20181104154324

I bought an Ooredoo SIM card at Doha airport. Price was QAR 35 without any initial call credit or data allowance contrary to what this Wiki says, see this Ooredoo webpage webpage for confirmation. For data I had to choose from these plans, I took 1000 MB for QAR 30 for 14 days.

Download speeds were mostly good. A few times I had to disable/re-enable data on my phone to get it working again. My paranoid self had me thinking this was due to censorship issues but who knows. Speaking of censorship, VoIP does not work on Ooredoo, at least the non-Qatar based providers I tried don't work, apparently only Qatar Telecom and Vodafone are allowed to provide VoIP services in Qatar, see here. But you can use a VPN to overcome this. Interestingly, my hotel Wifi used Qatar Telecom aka Ooredoo as their Internet provider and I had no issues here regarding the use of foreign VoIP providers.

For a one-time fee of QAR 1/week you can get discounted rates on local and international calls to certain countries, for a list of prices and supported countries see here.

The Vodafone shop at the airport is tucked away in a 7/11 type store where you can buy snacks and water. It's in the arrivals hall to your left once you leave the baggage claim area, Ooredoo is on the far right, can be easily spotted.