Recent price increases have encouraged Qataris to use social networking sites and tweets to voice their complaints and wage campaigns, including a call to boycott some outlets. The sudden trend was kicked off by Qatar Telecom (Qtel) customers, who launched the much-talked-about drive ‘Qtel Fail’ criticising the company of charging more and providing inefficient services.

What is interesting is that people are naming the outlets on the sites and tweets that they claim are raising the prices of commodities or servicesThe names of more than two dozen outlets, a vast majority of them restaurants figured on social networking sites in comments yesterday which, it was claimed, had suddenly raised their rates.

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Despite the regional unrest and the economic downturn in the US, Ramadan witnessed an increase in advertising expenditures compared to previous months this year, but remains lower than last year.

This is due to the political unrest sweeping many parts of the region, coupled with the credit downgrade in the US and the debt crisis in Europe.

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