Curiosities about basic services in Malta

What is a basic service in Spain?

May be the water and the electrical power in every house?

The central heater system, perhaps?

Do you think in the internet connection as a basic service?

In my humble opinion all of them are basic services in the 2011 world.

So i am going to talk today about this services in Malta. I'll try to compare their quality against the usual quality in Galicia / Spain.

At first, The internet service. Please look at this advertisement i found in pub's toilets everywhere. Is your pipe big enough?

The local brand is called Melita (the roman name for Malta) and they have a broad offer in speeds of internet...

http://www.melita.com/personal/internet/packages/

If we compare them with Spainish prices, i think we don't have in Spain a really cheap functional connection like the Melita's 5 Mb (13'85€)... and this is Malta, one of the smallest countries in Europe...

Why dont we start an uprising in Spain claiming for the right price for Internet?

We should do it, i think the prices in Spain are too high...

Second, the central heater system

where i life, in Galicia, almost all our flats includes some kind of integrated central heater system, mostly City Gas heating or electrical heating.

I know the weather here is temperate, but this last two weeks it is been really cold (between 6 and 12 degrees celsius).

As they dont need the heating system most of the time, i haven´t seen central heating in any place. The most usual, yet, even in our residence are the old (for us) catalytic stove or oil heaters...

And at last, the water and electric power

There is water - even warm water- in Malta of course.

And electric power... You must no be afraid about that.

;)

But you should remember that the plugs are different here...

And that was all ...

See you