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An update: Stéphane Lee has just offered me a Flickr Pro account!!! I’m delighted! Thanks Stéphane. I owe you one massive beer (ek so gajack) :-)

I’ve just (re)discovered Flickr and I would like to upgrade my Flickr account to a Pro account but I can’t!!!

The reason is that Flickr uses PayPal for payment processing and PayPal unfortunately does not list Mauritius among the countries from which one can pay.

In my opinion, this is just an oversight and I’ve sent mails both to Flickr and PayPal to that effect. PayPal has not responded. But someone from Flickr has replied:

Thank you for your feedback, I will share it with the team. You can also purchase your account offline […]

But I don’t want to send them some bloody draft or international money order in 2006!!!

So I have only two solutions:

1. Wait for PayPal to include Mauritius in its list of countries…
2. Have someone from abroad (with a non-Mauritian credit card) buy a Flickr Pro gift for me… Naturally, I’ll reimburse the $24.95 in one way or another :-)

(Beautiful image courtesy of madgirl)

Seems that Nomad has lost the battle as both Telecom Plus and Mauritius Telecom have updated their websites with their new prices.

 

MyT

The normal MyT package is now Rs 750 + VAT (previously it was offered at Rs 990 + VAT). This is for 256kbit/s and 1Gb of “garantie d’usage”. In today’s difficult times, Rs 240 + VAT of savings is not bad at all.

Wanadoo ADSL

The normal Wanadoo ADSL package (garanteed 128kbit/s access) is also offered at Rs 750 + VAT. Personally, I prefer the MyT offer because of the Wifi connection but you may want (you bloody pirate :-) ) a garanteed bandwidth…

Nomad

No price decrease at all! The normal Nomad Home (garanteed 128kbit/s access) is still being offered at Rs 890 + VAT. Of course, Nomad is also available at 64kbit/s at only Rs 550 + VAT.

Let’s see how Nomad reacts to these new offers…

(Photo courtesy of NaOH)