SOS Calls Only

Searching frantically in daily newspaper letters to editors columns, I still haven't seen anyone complaining about the coverage, or lack of it, of the UAE's national mobile phone operator. I have recently moved into one of Dubai's freehold southern suburbs and there is zero mobile signal in my apartment. What makes this even more frustrating is the operator's recently launched advertising campaign, which claims that nationwide coverage reaches even remote mountain, desert and island spots! If it could even remotely reach a few hundred yards off Sheikh Zayed Road...